THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (ACT V OF 1898)
PART VI
PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS'
CHAPTER XXVIII
OF EXECUTION
397. Sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence. When a person already undergoing a sentence of imprisonment or imprisonment for life is sentenced to imprisonment, or imprisonment for life, such imprisonment, or imprisonment for life shall commence at the expiration of the imprisonment, or imprisonment for life to which he has been previously sentenced, unless the Court directs that the subsequent sentence shall run concurrently with such previous sentence:[ Subs. by Law Reforms Ordi. 1972.]
Provided that where a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment by an order under section 123 in default of furnishing security is, whilst undergoing such sentence, sentenced to imprisonment for an offence committed prior to the making of such order, the latter sentence shall commence immediately.
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