210 Consideration of time spent in custody

210  Consideration of time spent in custody

(1)     A court, in passing a sentence of imprisonment or detention on a person for an offence, shall—

(a)     in determining the period of imprisonment or detention, have regard to any period of time spent in custody by the person on remand awaiting trial or sentence, or spent in custody awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom [otherwise than from a category 1 territory][, or spent in hospital awaiting trial or sentence by virtue [of an assessment order, a treatment order or an interim compulsion order or by virtue] of an order made under section . . . 200 of this Act];

(b)     specify the date of commencement of the sentence; and

(c)     if the

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