(1)Where a person is convicted at one trial of any 2 or more distinct offences, the court must sentence the person for those offences to the punishments that it is competent to impose.
Section history
Section 306 — Sentence in case of conviction for several offences at one trial
As in force on 31 December 2021.
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(2)Subject to section 307 and subsection (4), where these punishments consist of imprisonment, they are to run consecutively in the order that the court directs, or they may run concurrently if the court so directs.
(3)The court need not send the offender for trial before a higher court merely because the combined punishment for the various offences exceeds the punishment which the court is competent to inflict for a single offence.
(4)Subject to any written law, a Magistrate’s Court or District Court may not impose a total term of imprisonment that exceeds twice that which such court is competent to impose under section 303.