Enhanced punishment for repeat offenders: life or extended imprisonment for subsequent similar offences under specified penal chapters. Enhanced punishment attaches when a prior qualifying conviction for an offence under specified penal chapters exists and a person commits a subsequent like offence under those chapters; each such subsequent offence is punishable by imprisonment for life or by imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.
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Enhanced punishment for repeat offenders: life or extended imprisonment for subsequent similar offences under specified penal chapters.
Enhanced punishment attaches when a prior qualifying conviction for an offence under specified penal chapters exists and a person commits a subsequent like offence under those chapters; each such subsequent offence is punishable by imprisonment for life or by imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.
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