Section 102
Sentence in case of conviction for several offences at one trial
of Subordinate Courts Act 1948
When a person is convicted at one trial of any two or more distinct offences a Magistrates’ Court may sentence him for those offences to the several punishments prescribed therefor which the court is competent to inflict, the punishments when consisting of imprisonment to commence the one after the expiration of the other in such order as the court may direct, or to run concurrently if the court shall so direct, but it shall not be necessary for the court, by reason only of the aggregate punishment for the several offences being in excess of the punishment which it is competent to inflict on conviction of one single offence, to send the offender for trial before a higher court:
Provided that—
(a)
in no case shall the person be sentenced to periods of imprisonment amounting in the aggregate to more than twenty years;
(b)
the aggregate punishment shall not exceed twice the amount of punishment which the court in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction is competent to inflict; and
(c)
when imprisonment is directed in default of payment of a fine or of costs or compensation ordered under the authority of any law for the time being in force, the imprisonment shall be consecutive to any other term of imprisonment so directed and to any sentence of imprisonment otherwise imposed.