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Sentencing Act 1995
52Aggregate term of imprisonment
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52 Aggregate term of imprisonment
(1) A court may impose one term of imprisonment in respect of a
person found guilty of 2 or more offences.
(2) Despite subsection (1), a court must not impose an aggregate term
of imprisonment under subsection (1) if one of the offences is a
sexual offence.
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(3) An aggregate term of imprisonment may be imposed under
subsection (1) whether or not the offences are laid on complaint,
information or indictment or any combination of them.
(4) A court that imposes an aggregate sentence of imprisonment under
subsection (1) must indicate to the guilty person the following:
(a) the fact that an aggregate sentence is being imposed;
(b) the sentence that would have been imposed for each offence
if separate sentences were imposed instead of an aggregate
(5) Subsection (3) does not limit any other requirement that a court has
to record the reasons for its decision.
(6) The term, and any non-parole period, of an aggregate sentence of
imprisonment imposed under subsection (1) is not revoked or
varied by a later sentence of imprisonment that the same or some
other court later imposes in relation to another offence.
(7) An aggregate sentence of imprisonment imposed under
subsection (1) is not invalidated by a failure to comply with this
(8) To avoid doubt, the Local Court may impose an aggregate
sentence of imprisonment under subsection (1) that does not
exceed 5 years.