Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988
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35B Effect of custodial sentence in other cases
(1) This section applies where a person is convicted in England and Wales of an offence for which a court proposes to order the person to be disqualified under section 34 or 35 and— (a) the court proposes to impose on the person a custodial sentence (other than a suspended sentence) for another offence, or (b) at the time of sentencing for the offence, a custodial sentence imposed on the person on an earlier occasion has not expired. (2) In determining the period for which the person is to be disqualified under section 34 or 35, the court must have regard to the consideration in subsection (3) if and to the extent that it is appropriate to do so. (3) The consideration is the diminished effect of disqualification as a distinct punishment if the person who is disqualified is also detained in pursuance of a custodial sentence. (4) If the court proposes to order the person to be disqualified under section 34 or 35 and to impose a custodial sentence for the same offence, the court may not in relation to that disqualification take that custodial sentence into account for the purposes of subsection (2). (5) In this section “custodial sentence” and “suspended sentence” have the same meaning as in section 35A.
35B Effect of custodial sentence in other cases
(1) This section applies where a person is convicted in England and Wales of an offence for which a court proposes to order the person to be disqualified under section 34 or 35 and— (a) the court proposes to impose on the person a custodial sentence (other than a suspended sentence) for another offence, or (b) at the time of sentencing for the offence, a custodial sentence imposed on the person on an earlier occasion has not expired. (2) In determining the period for which the person is to be disqualified under section 34 or 35, the court must have regard to the consideration in subsection (3) if and to the extent that it is appropriate to do so. (3) The consideration is the diminished effect of disqualification as a distinct punishment if the person who is disqualified is also detained in pursuance of a custodial sentence. (4) If the court proposes to order the person to be disqualified under section 34 or 35 and to impose a custodial sentence for the same offence, the court may not in relation to that disqualification take that custodial sentence into account for the purposes of subsection (2). (5) In this section “custodial sentence” and “suspended sentence” have the same meaning as in section 35A.
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