Discovery of further offence

(1) Where a person has been convicted by or before a court of a subsequent offence committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence but that court was not at the time aware of the suspended sentence or of some feature affecting the operation of that sentence, any court may, on receipt of information relating to that suspended sentence or that feature and the conviction of the offender for the subsequent offence, issue a summons requiring that person to appear at the place and time specified in the summons, or may issue a warrant for that person’s arrest. (2) A summons or warrant issued under subsection (1) of this section, shall direct that the person appear or be brought 18 (Alternative Sentences) before the court by or before which the person was convicted in respect of the subsequent offence and, upon that person so appearing or being so brought, the court shall proceed to exercise its powers under section 9 of this Act in respect of the