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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 64

64.(1) Where a magistrates' court imposes imprisonment on any person, it may
order that the term of that imprisonment shall commence on the expiration of
any other term of imprisonment imposed by that or any other court; but where a
magistrates' court imposes two or more terms of imprisonment to run
consecutively the aggregate of those terms shall not, except as provided by
this section or any other enactment, exceed [twelve months].

(2) Where two or more terms of imprisonment in respect of indictable offences
tried summarily are imposed to run consecutively the aggregate of those terms
shall not exceed eighteen months.

(3) Without prejudice to [section 149(3) of the Customs and Excise Management
Act 1979] or [section 63 of the Miscellaneous Transferred Excise Duties Act
(Northern Ireland) 1972] where a person has been sentenced by a magistrates'
court to imprisonment in default of payment of, or in default of sufficient
distress to satisfy, a sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction the court may
order that the sentence shall begin at the expiration of any term of
imprisonment imposed for that offence on that person in addition to such sum,
but so that the aggregate term of sentences of imprisonment to which this
subsection applies shall not where a person is convicted of a summary offence
exceed twelve months or where a person is convicted of an indictable offence
tried summarily exceed eighteen months.

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