Acts and Regulations

P-22.1 - Provincial Offences Procedure Act

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Commencement of term of imprisonment
68(1)Subject to subsections (2), (3) and (4), where a judge imposes a term of imprisonment, the term commences when it is imposed.
68(2)Where a judge imposes a term of imprisonment of not more than ninety days, the judge may order the term of imprisonment to be served intermittently.
68(3)A judge may order a term of imprisonment to commence on a day not later than thirty days after the day of sentencing.
68(4)Where a person is already serving a term of imprisonment when a further term of imprisonment which the judge does not order to be served concurrently is imposed, that further term of imprisonment commences when the previous term of imprisonment expires.
1990, c.18, s.33