CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 15 preceding paragraph, shall also be applied; (e) where the law prescribes the punishment of temporary interdiction, that which is of the longest duration shall be applied with an increase varying from one-third to one-half of the aggregate duration of the others: Provided that the term awarded shall in no case exceed twenty years; (f) a person found guilty of more than one offence liable to pecuniary punishments shall be sentenced to the punishment of the higher or highest fine (multa or ammenda), as the case may be, in addition to one-half of each of the other fines (multa or ammenda); (g) in the case of conversion of more than one pecuniary punishment into a punishment restrictive of personal liberty, the duration of this punishment shall not exceed three years, in the case of a fine (multa), or six months in the case of a fine (ammenda); and if both fines (multa and ammenda) have been awarded, the conversion shall be made into detention or imprisonment as the court shall direct; (h) when several offences, which taken together do not constitute an aggravated crime, are designed for the commission of another offence, whether aggravated or simple, the punishment for the graver offence shall be applied. 18. Where the several acts committed by the offender, even if at different times, constitute violations of the same provision of the law, and are committed in pursuance of the same design, such acts shall be deemed to be a single offence, called a continuous offence, but the punishment may be increased by one or two degrees. Continuous offence. Amended by: XI. 1900.6. 19. Every punishment established for any offence shall be deemed to be so established without prejudice to any higher punishment prescribed for the offence in any other law, whenever the circumstances mentioned in such other law concur in the offence. Rules respecting the award of punishments. 20. When the law expressly provides that a punishment shall not be awarded in its minimum, the punishment to be awarded shall always include at least one-third of the difference between the minimum and the maximum. Punishment not awardable in its minimum. Amended by: XI.1900.7; IX. 1911.5; XLIX. 1981.6. 21. Saving the provisions of article 492, the court may, for special and exceptional reasons to be expressly stated in detail in the decision, apply in its discretion any lesser punishment which it deems adequate, notwithstanding that a minimum punishment is prescribed in the article contemplating the particular offence or under the provisions of article 20, saving the provisions of article 7. Punishment below prescribed minimum. Added by: XII. 1944.2. Amended by: XXI. 1971.4.