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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentencing purposes and principles, and provisions of general application - Permitted combinations of sentences

21: Effect of provisions concerning multiple sentences on powers of court

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"Courts can still make any order they are allowed to make when deciding sentences"

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When a court is deciding on a sentence, some rules apply. Nothing in sections 19, 20, and 20A lets a court give a sentence it could not give otherwise. You can read more about these sections in the links to sections 19, 20, and 20A.

The rules also do not stop a court from making an order it has the power to make when someone is convicted. This applies to orders under this law or any other law. You can compare this to a similar law from 1985, s 13(8), (9).

A court's power to make orders is not limited by these rules. This means a court can still make any order it is allowed to make.

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Part 1Sentencing purposes and principles, and provisions of general application
Permitted combinations of sentences

21Effect of provisions concerning multiple sentences on powers of court

  1. Nothing in sections 19, 20, and 20A—

  2. empowers a court to impose any sentence that it would not otherwise be empowered to impose; or
    1. limits the power of a court to make any order that it is empowered to make on the conviction of any person, whether under this or any other enactment.

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      • Section 21: amended, on , by section 14 of the Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Act 2013 (2013 No 88).