Criminal Justice Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 2:30 pm ar 27 Chwefror 2003.
'(1) A court sentencing a person to a term of imprisonment may not order or direct that the term is to commence on the expiry of any other sentence of imprisonment from which he has been released early under this Chapter.
(2) In this section ''sentence of imprisonment'' includes a sentence of detention under section 91 of the Sentencing Act or section 208 of this Act, and ''term of imprisonment'' is to be read accordingly.'.—[Hilary Benn.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
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