Time spent by UK prisoner in custody overseasU.K.
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57.—(1) This regulation applies where a prisoner (“P”) is transferred to the issuing State pursuant to a warrant issued under regulation 54.
(2) Any period of time spent in custody outside the United Kingdom pursuant to the European investigation order must be treated for all purposes as if P had spent that period in custody in the place in the United Kingdom where P is liable to be detained pursuant to the sentence or order to which P is subject.
(3) Where P is serving a sentence and, prior to being returned to the United Kingdom, ceases to be in custody at a time when P is liable to be detained pursuant to the sentence or order to which P is subject, P must be deemed for all purposes to be unlawfully at large.