Sentencing Act 1995
78FImprisonment for sexual offences
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78F Imprisonment for sexual offences (1) Where a court finds an offender guilty of a sexual offence, the court must record a conviction and must order that the offender serve: (a) a term of actual imprisonment; or (b) a term of imprisonment that is suspended by it partly but not wholly.
Sentencing Act 1995 62 (2) Nothing in subsection (1) is to be taken to affect the power of a court to make any other order authorised by or under this or any other Act in addition to an order under subsection (1).