SECTION 52 — Consecutive Sentences

(1) Sentences of loss of liberty shall be enforced in the chronological order in which the imprisonment warrants were notified to the offender. (2) Accessory penalties and confinement under Section 43 of this Code shall run from the date when the sentence becomes final, while other preventive measures shall commence from the expiry or suspension of the principal sentence. (3) Several consecutive preventive measures shall be enforced in the following order: a) Confinement in a health institution ; b) Preventive confinement ; c) Post-penal supervision and assistance. (4) Where during the currency of any such measure the offender is sentenced to loss of liberty for another felony or misdemeanour, the preventive measure shall be suspended until the new sentence shall have been served out.