49ACourt may impose single, general or mixed sentence

49A Court may impose single, general or mixed sentence

[Section 49A Inserted by No. 1 of 2003, s. 10, Applied:16 Apr 2003]

(1)  [Section 49A Subsection (1) amended by No. 43 of 2006, s. 70, Applied:18 Dec 2006] If a youth has been found guilty of more than one offence specified in one or more complaints, the Court may impose on the youth –

(a) one sentence for all of those offences; or

(b) a separate sentence for each of those offences; or

(c) one sentence for a group of those offences determined by the Court and –

(i) one sentence for all of the remaining offences; or

(ii) a separate sentence for each of the remaining offences; or

(iii) a separate sentence for each other group of the offences remaining as the court determines and a separate sentence for each offence remaining, if any, as is not within any such group.

(2)  In imposing a single sentence on a youth for more than one offence, the Court must not impose a penalty exceeding the sum of the maximum penalties that could otherwise have been imposed under this Part if each of those offences had been sentenced separately.