Criminal Procedure Code · s 438K

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s 438KSupplementary provisions as to appeal against sentence

(1)

Where the High Court has passed on an accused two or more sentences in the same proceeding, an appeal by the Public Prosecutor against any one of those sentences shall be treated as an appeal in respect of both or all of them.

(2)

On an appeal against sentence by the Public Prosecutor, the

Court of Appeal, if it considers that the respondent should be sentenced differently for an offence for which he was dealt with, may -

(a)

quash any sentence or order which is the subject of the appeal; and

(5)

in place of it pass such sentence or make such order as it thinks appropriate for the case (whether such sentence or order is more or less severe) and as the lower Court had power to pass or make when dealing with him for the offence.