Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03935:body:0:p13
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by order, direct when each federal sentence imposed by it for the first-mentioned offence commences, but so that:

    (a) each federal sentence does not commence later than the end of the sentences the commencement of which has already been fixed or the last to end of those sentences; and

    (b) if a non-parole period applies in respect of any State or Territory sentences—the first federal sentence to commence after the end of that non-parole period commences immediately after the end of the period.

"(2) Where:

(a) a person is convicted of 2 or more federal offences at the same sitting; and

(b) the person is sentenced to imprisonment for more than one of the offences;

the court must, by order, direct when each sentence commences, but so that no sentence commences later than the end of the sentences the commencement of which has already been fixed or of the last to end of those sentences.

"(3) Where:

    (a) a person is convicted of a federal offence or offences, and a State or Territory offence or offences, at the same sitting; and

    (b) the person is sentenced to imprisonment for more than one of the offences;

the court must, by order, direct when each federal sentence commences but so that:

    (c) each federal sentence does not commence later than the end of the sentences the commencement of which has already been fixed or the last to end of those sentences; and

    (d) if a non-parole period applies in respect of any State or Territory sentences—the first federal sentence to commence after the end of that non-parole period commences immediately after the end of the period.

"(4) For the purpose of fixing the commencement of a sentence under this section, a reference in this section to a sentence the commencement of which has already been fixed includes a reference to another sentence imposed at the same time as the first-mentioned sentence.

Detention of person in State or Territory prisons

"19a. A federal offender who is ordered by a court or a prescribed authority to be detained in prison in a State or Territory, may be detained in any prison in that State or Territory and may be removed from one prison to another prison in that State or Territory as if the person were detained as a State offender or Territory offender.

Remissions and reductions of sentences

"19aa. (1) A law of a State or Territory that provides for the remission or reduction of State or Territory sentences (other than such part of the law as relates to the remission or reduction of non-parole periods of imprisonment or of periods of imprisonment equivalent to pre-release periods of imprisonment in respect of recognizance