237A. Address on sentence

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.

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

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

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