Section 8Part 2 — Powers of Courts
Sentences in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial
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8. (1) When a person is convicted at one trial of two or more distinct offences the court may sentence the person, for such offences, to the several punishments prescribed therefor which such court is competent to impose; such punishments when consisting of imprisonment to commence the one after the expiration of the other, unless the court directs that such punishments shall run concurrently.
In the case of consecutive sentences it shall not be necessary for the Summary Court, by reason only of the aggregate punishment for the several offences being in excess of the punishment which it is permitted to impose on conviction of a single offence, to send the offender for trial before the Grand Court: Provided that the aggregate punishment shall not exceed twice the amount of punishment which the Summary Court, as constituted to try that particular offender, is competent to impose in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction.