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Sentencing Act 1995
51Cumulative orders of imprisonment
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51 Cumulative orders of imprisonment
(1) If an offender is:
(a) serving, or has been sentenced to serve, a term of
imprisonment for an offence; and
(b) sentenced to serve another term of imprisonment for another
the term of imprisonment for the other offence may be directed to
start from the end of the term of imprisonment for the first offence or
an earlier date.
(2) Subsection (1) applies whether the term of imprisonment for the
first offence is being served concurrently with or cumulatively on the
term of imprisonment for another offence.