Section 22Part 2 — Punishments
Imprisonment
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22. (1) A person liable to imprisonment for life or any other period may be sentenced to a shorter term.
Subject to any provision of any other law a person liable to imprisonment may be sentenced to pay a fine in addition to or instead of imprisonment.
Every sentence of imprisonment shall comply and be served in accordance with the Prisons Act (2021 Revision).
Notwithstanding subsection (3), a court which passes a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years may order that the sentence shall not take effect unless, within a period of two years from the date of the sentence, the offender commits in the Islands another offence punishable with imprisonment.
The power to suspend a sentence conferred by subsection (4) may not be exercised in respect of a sentence for any offence against —
section 180; or
the Traffic Act (2026 Revision) save offences contravening section 89(1) or 133 thereof.