If a court decides to delay when you start your prison sentence under section 100 of the Sentencing Act 2002, your sentence starts when you are taken into custody after the delay period ends. You will be taken into custody after the court-specified delay period finishes. The delay period is decided by the court.
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77: Start date of notional single sentence, or
"When many sentences are treated as one, the start date is the same as the first sentence's start date."
79: Start date if later sentence replaces original sentence, or
"When you get a new sentence to replace an old one, it starts on the same day as the old sentence."
If a court defers a start date under section 100 of the Sentencing Act 2002, the start date of the sentence of imprisonment is the date on which the offender is taken into custody after the expiry of the period specified by the court.
