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44 Part 2—Notification and orders

(2) Where a person is under 18 on the relevant date, subsection (1) has effect as if for any reference to a period of 10 years, 7 years, 5 years or 2 years there were substituted a reference to one-half of that period.

(3) Subsection (4) applies where a relevant offender within section 80(1)(a) or 81(1)(a) is or has been sentenced, in respect of two or more offences listed in Schedule 3—
 * (a) to consecutive terms of imprisonment; or
 * (b) to terms of imprisonment which are partly concurrent.

(4) Where this subsection applies, subsection (1) has effect as if the relevant offender were or had been sentenced, in respect of each of the offences, to a term of imprisonment which —
 * (a) in the case of consecutive terms, is equal to the aggregate of those terms;
 * (b) in the case of partly concurrent terms (X and Y, which overlap for a period Z), is equal to X plus Y minus Z.

(5) Where a relevant offender the subject of a finding within section 80(1)(c) or 81(1)(c) is subsequently tried for the offence, the notification period relating to the finding ends at the conclusion of the trial.

(6) In this Part, “relevant date” means—
 * (a) in the case of a person within section 80(1)(a) or 81(1)(a), the date of the conviction;
 * (b) in the case of a person within section 80(1)(b) or (c) or 81(1)(b) or (c), the date of the finding;