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Subordinate Courts Act 1948 s 102

Subordinate Courts Act 1948 s 102

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s 102 Sentence in case of conviction for several offences at one trial

When a person is convicted at one trial of any two or more distinct offences a Magistrates’ Court may sentence him for those offences to the several punishments prescribed therefor which the court is competent to inflict, the punishments when consisting of imprisonment to commence the one after the expiration of the other in such order as the court may direct, or to run concurrently if the court shall so direct, but it shall not be necessary for the court, by reason only of the aggregate punishment for the several offences being in excess of the punishment which it is competent to inflict on conviction of one single offence, to send the offender for trial before a higher court: Provided that— (a) in no case shall the person be sentenced to periods of imprisonment amounting in the aggregate to more than twenty years; (b) the aggregate punishment shall not exceed twice the amount of punishment which the court in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction is competent to inflict; and (c) when imprisonment is directed in default of payment of a fine or of costs or compensation ordered under the authority of any law for the time being in force, the imprisonment shall be consecutive to any other term of imprisonment so directed and to any sentence of imprisonment otherwise imposed.

Malay text (authoritative)

Hukuman dalam hal sabitan bagi beberapa kesalahan dalam satu perbicaraan

Apabila seseorang disabitkan dalam satu perbicaraan atas mana-mana dua kesalahan yang berlainan atau lebih Mahkamah Majistret boleh menjatuhinya bagi kesalahan itu beberapa hukuman yang ditetapkan bagi kesalahan itu yang mahkamah itu berwibawa untuk mengenakan, hukuman itu apabila terdiri daripada pemenjaraan hendaklah bermula selepas tamatnya hukuman yang satu lagi itu mengikut susunan sebagaimana yang diarahkan oleh mahkamah, atau hendaklah berjalan serentak jika mahkamah mengarahkan sedemikian, tetapi tidaklah perlu bagi mahkamah, semata-mata oleh sebab agregat hukuman bagi beberapa kesalahan itu melebihi hukuman yang mahkamah itu berwibawa untuk mengenakan atas sabitan satu kesalahan, menghantar pesalah itu untuk dibicarakan di hadapan mahkamah yang lebih tinggi: Dengan syarat bahawa— (a) orang itu tidak sekali-kali boleh dihukum dengan tempoh pemenjaraan yang terjumlah secara agregat lebih dari dua puluh tahun; (b) agregat hukuman itu tidak boleh melebihi dua kali ganda amaun hukuman yang mahkamah itu dalam menjalankan bidang kuasa biasanya berwibawa untuk mengenakan hukuman itu; dan (c) apabila pemenjaraan diarahkan kerana tidak membayar denda atau kos atau pampasan yang diperintahkan di bawah kuasa mana-mana undang-undang yang sedang berkuat kuasa, pemenjaraan itu hendaklah menuruti apaapa tempoh pemenjaraan lain yang diarahkan sedemikian dan apa-apa hukuman pemenjaraan yang selainnya dikenakan.

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Text as at 1 May 2013 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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