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 When a court is to adjudge any person to a punishment and it appears that he has committed an act constituting several and different counts of offences, the court may punish him on every count constituted by the act or may punish him on the heaviest count only. But whatever the case may be, the total imprisonment must not be over twenty years, save where it be life imprisonment.

Whoever has been sentenced by a final judgment to imprisonment and commits any offence against whilst still being required to undergo the punishment or during the period of five years counted from the day of his discharge from the punishment shall, if the punishment to which the court is to adjudge him for the subsequent offence is as serious as imprisonment, have the punishment designated by the court for the subsequent offence increased by one third.

⁠Whoever has been sentenced by a final judgment to imprisonment and commits any of the following offences in the same subsection again whilst still being required to undergo the punishment or during the period of three years counted from the day of his discharge from the punishment shall, if the punishment to which the court adjudged him for the former offence is