Criminal Procedure Code · s 237A

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237A.
Address on sentence
(1) Before a Court passes sentence on a person convicted of an offence, the officer or other person conducting the prosecution may address the Court with respect to that sentence.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (I), the officer or other person conducting the prosecution may, in an address pursuant to that subsection -
(a) draw the attention of the Court to any aggravating circumstances, or the presence or absence of any extenuating circumstances, in relation to the offence;
(6) where the Court has a choice with regard to the lunds of sentence that it may impose in relation to the offence, comment on the appropriateness of those kinds of sentence; and

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(c) where the Court has a choice with regard to those kinds of sentence, recommend that the Court impose one of those kinds of sentence.
(3) The failure by the officer or other person conducting the prosecution to exercise his right under subsection (1) to address the Court with respect to the sentence for the offence shall not be taken into account by the Court in determining an appeal against that sentence by the Public
Prosecutor.

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s 237AAddress on sentence

(1)

Before a Court passes sentence on a person convicted of an offence, the officer or other person conducting the prosecution may address the Court with respect to that sentence.

(2)

Without limiting the generality of subsection (I), the officer or other person conducting the prosecution may, in an address pursuant to that subsection -

(a)

draw the attention of the Court to any aggravating circumstances, or the presence or absence of any extenuating circumstances, in relation to the offence;

(6)

where the Court has a choice with regard to the lunds of sentence that it may impose in relation to the offence, comment on the appropriateness of those kinds of sentence; and

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(c)

where the Court has a choice with regard to those kinds of sentence, recommend that the Court impose one of those kinds of sentence.

(3)

The failure by the officer or other person conducting the prosecution to exercise his right under subsection (1) to address the Court with respect to the sentence for the offence shall not be taken into account by the Court in determining an appeal against that sentence by the Public

Prosecutor.