Parole Act 2002
Parole and other release from detention - Sentence calculation - Determining how much time has been served
89: Determining time served
"How to work out the time someone has already spent in prison for their sentence"
When you are working out how much of a sentence someone has served, you use the rules in this part of the law if the sentence started on or after the commencement date. You do this to figure out how much time the offender has already spent serving their sentence. The rules help you determine the time served.
If someone's sentence started before the commencement date, which is called a pre-cd sentence, you use different rules to work out how much time they have served. These rules are found in Parts 4 and 6 of the Criminal Justice Act 1985. You follow these rules to calculate the time served for a pre-cd sentence.
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