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| (1) When a person is convicted at one trial of any two or more distinct offences the court may subject to section 301 sentence him for such offences to the several punishments prescribed therefor which such court is competent to inflict; such punishments when consisting of imprisonment to commence, unless the court orders them or any of them to run concurrently, the one after the expiration of the other in such order as the court may direct, even where the aggregate punishment for the several offences is in excess of the punishment which the court is competent to inflict on conviction of one single offence : |
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| (2) For the purpose of appeal aggregate sentences imposed under subsection (1) in case of convictions for several offences at one trial shall be deemed to be a single sentence. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts