(1) Subject to subsection (3), where an offender is convicted of a subsequent offence committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence, the Court by or before which the offender is convicted of the subsequent offence may order that the suspended sentence shall take effect with the original term unaltered, or the Court may substitute a lesser term of imprisonment for the original term.
(2) Where a Court deals with an offender in respect of a suspended sentence passed by another Court, the former Court shall notify the latter Court of the manner in which the offender was dealt with.
(3) Where an offender in respect of whom a suspended sentence passed by the High Court is in operation is convicted of an offence by a magistrate's court, the magistrate's court shall forward to the Registrar of the High Court a Certificate signed by the magistrate and under the seal of the magistrate's court certifying that the offender has been convicted of a subsequent offence, together with such other particulars of the case as the magistrate may consider desirable.
(4) On receipt of the certificate, a Judge of the High Court before whom the offender is brought may, without prejudice to the order of the magistrate with respect to the subsequent offence, order that the suspended sentence shall take effect with the original term unaltered or with the substitution of a lesser term for the original term.