{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:71","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Imprisonment as Punishment for Multiple Offences","number":"71","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/71/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK II — PUNISHMENT","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 2. — Authorized Sentences"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"In cases where the offender successively committed several offences, or where the offender’s acts simultaneously contravened several criminal provisions, and the Court decides that a sentence of imprisonment must be imposed for more than one of the crimes committed, the Court shall impose a punishment of imprisonment for the most serious offence, and may increase such punishment by the total of the terms of imprisonments imposed for the other concurrent offences, with each such term not exceeding the median of the range set for the respective class of offences to which each such concurrent offence belongs under this Code, provided that, except for the imposition of life imprisonment, the maximum aggregated sentence shall not exceed 27 years of imprisonment.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/71/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":68,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/68/?article=71&paragraph=p1#article-71-p1"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/69/?article=71&paragraph=p1#article-71-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"The provisions of this Article apply whether or not the concurrent offences are tried together or in different proceedings or at different times.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/71/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/69/?article=71&paragraph=p2#article-71-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"For purposes of this Article:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/71/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/69/?article=71&paragraph=p3#article-71-p3"}]},{"id":"p3a","number":"a","parentId":"p3","text":"if the multiple offences are, for reasons of jurisdiction, charged or being tried at different levels of courts, the court which has jurisdiction over the most serious charge shall, either of its own motion or by the application of the accused or the public prosecutor, have jurisdiction to try all of the charges and impose sentence as provided in sub-Article (1); and","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/71/#p3a","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/69/?article=71&paragraph=p3a#article-71-p3a"}]},{"id":"p3b","number":"b","parentId":"p3","text":"if a court before which multiple offences are brought against the same accused orders that the charges be tried separately, the court shall, after imposing sentences for each offence, compute the ultimate sentence as provided in sub-Article (1).","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/71/#p3b","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":69,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/69/?article=71&paragraph=p3b#article-71-p3b"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}