Act Number: 47

Act Name: The Assam Rifles Act, 2006

Year: 2006

Enactment Date: 2006-11-03

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the governance of the Assam Rifles, an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India, to carry out Counter Insurgency Operations in the specified areas and to act in aid of civil authorities for the maintenance of the law and order and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 158: Fresh sentence after suspension.
    Where an offender, while a sentence on him is suspended under this Act, is sentenced for any other offence, then,
         (a) if the further sentence is also suspended under this Act, the two sentence shall run concurrently;
         (b) if the further sentence is for a period of three months or more and is not suspended under this Act, the offender shall be so committed to prison or to Force custody for the unexpired portion of the previous sentence, but both sentences shall run concurrently; and
         (c) if the further sentence is for a period of less than three months and is not suspended under this Act, the offender shall be so committed on that sentence only, and the previous sentence shall, subject to any order which may be passed under section 156 or section 157, continue to be suspended.
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