Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 22
22. Except in the case of a sentence of imprisonment for life or
of imprisonment or detention in default of payment of a fine (multa
or ammenda), any time prior to conviction and sentence during
which the person sentenced is in prison for the offence or offences
for which he has been so convicted and sentenced, not being time in
prison in execution of a sentence, shall count as part of the term of
imprisonment or detention under his sentence; but where he was
previously subject to a probation order, an order for conditional
discharge or to a suspended sentence in respect of such offence or
offences, any such period falling before that order was made or
suspended sentence passed shall be disregarded for the purposes of
this article:
Provided that where any time prior to conviction as
aforesaid has, by virtue of this article, been counted as part of the
term of imprisonment or detention under the sentence in respect of
that conviction, such time shall not be counted as part of the term
of imprisonment or detention under any other sentence.
Forfeiture of
corpus delicti.
Amended by:
VI.1947.7;
XXXI.2007.3.
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