Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts If when the offender
is being sentenced to a term of detention for an offence —
(a) he
or she has previously spent time in custody in respect of that offence and for
no other reason; and
(b) the
court decides that that time should be taken into account,
the court may take
that time into account —
(c) if
it imposes a set term of detention, by reducing that term by an appropriate
period; or
(d) by
ordering that the term it imposes is to be taken to have begun on a specified
day being the day when that custody began or on some later date that is not
later than the date of the sentence.
[Section 119 inserted by No. 29 of 1998
s. 22.]