Section 44

Notwithstanding the provisions of any State law, no person shall be sentenced by a court to rigorous imprisonment or to simple imprisonment, and every State law conferring power on a court to pass a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment or imprisonment of either description shall be construed as conferring power to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding the term for which a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment or imprisonment of either description could have been passed in that case.

Any person who is undergoing or liable to undergo a term of rigorous imprisonment or a simple imprisonment under a sentence passed by any court or as a commuted punishment for any offence shall be treated hereafter as if he had been sentenced to, or were undergoing or liable to undergo, imprisonment for such term.

Certain penalties may be cumulative.