Part V CUSTODIAL SENTENCES ETC.
Chapter VSuspended sentences of imprisonment
Suspended sentences of imprisonment
120 Court by which suspended sentence may be dealt with.
1
An offender may be dealt with in respect of a suspended sentence by the Crown Court or, where the sentence was passed by a magistrates’ court, by any magistrates’ court before which he appears or is brought.
2
Where an offender is convicted by a magistrates’ court of an offence punishable with imprisonment and the court is satisfied that the offence was committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence passed by the Crown Court—
a
the court may, if it thinks fit, commit him in custody or on bail to the Crown Court; and
b
if it does not, shall give written notice of the conviction to the appropriate officer of the Crown Court.
3
For the purposes of this section and of section 121 below, a suspended sentence passed on an offender on appeal shall be treated as having been passed by the court by which he was originally sentenced.