s. 18 (b) if that person is not present before the court, it may take and receive other evidence (whether oral or written and whether on oath or otherwise) of the length of the period of custody. (4) If an offender was held in custody in S. 18(4) amended by circumstances to which subsection (1) applies, No. 48/1997 then the court must declare the period to be s. 11(3). reckoned as already served under the sentence and cause to be noted in the records of the court the fact that the declaration was made and its details. * * * * * S. 18(4A) inserted by No. 53/2003 s. 4(4), repealed by No. 30/2010 s. 7(a). (5) The person with custody of the record referred to S. 18(5) amended by in subsection (4) must indorse on the warrant or No. 69/1997 other authority for the imprisonment or detention s. 6(3). of the offender particulars of the matters referred to in that subsection. * * * * * S. 18(5A) inserted by No. 53/2003 s. 4(5), repealed by No. 30/2010 s. 7(a). (6) If a person charged with a series of offences committed on different occasions has been in custody continuously since arrest, the period of custody for the purposes of subsection (1) must be reckoned from the time of his or her arrest even if he or she is not convicted of the offence with respect to which he or she was first arrested or of other offences in the series.
(b) if that person is not present before the court, it may take and receive other evidence (whether oral or written and whether on oath or otherwise) of the length of the period of custody. S. 18(4) amended by No. 48/1997 s. 11(3). (4) If an offender was held in custody in circumstances to which subsection (1) applies, then the court must declare the period to be reckoned as already served under the sentence and cause to be noted in the records of the court the fact that the declaration was made and its details. S. 18(4A) inserted by No. 53/2003 s. 4(4), repealed by No. 30/2010 s. 7(a). * * * * * S. 18(5) amended by No. 69/1997 s. 6(3). (5) The person with custody of the record referred to in subsection (4) must indorse on the warrant or other authority for the imprisonment or detention of the offender particulars of the matters referred to in that subsection. S. 18(5A) inserted by No. 53/2003 s. 4(5), repealed by No. 30/2010 s. 7(a). * * * * * s. 18 (6) If a person charged with a series of offences committed on different occasions has been in custody continuously since arrest, the period of custody for the purposes of subsection (1) must be reckoned from the time of his or her arrest even if he or she is not convicted of the offence with respect to which he or she was first arrested or of other offences in the series.
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