Naval Discipline Act 1957

90 Suspension of sentences

(1) Where any person has been sentenced under this Act to imprisonment or detention, the authority having power under section eighty-one of this Act to issue a committal order may, in lieu of issuing such an order, order that the sentence be suspended; and in any such case the sentence shall not begin to run until a committal order is issued under section ninety-one of this Act.

(2) Where any person has been sentenced under this Act to imprisonment or detention and a committal order in respect of that sentence has been issued under the said section eighty-one, the sentence may be suspended by an order made—

(a) in any case, by the Admiralty or by any officer holding such command as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Admiralty ;

(b) where the committal order was issued by an officer not holding such command, by that officer;

and in any such case the offender shall be released and the currency of the sentence suspended until a further committal order is issued in respect of that sentence under section ninety-one of this Act.

(3) Where a sentence is suspended under this section, the Admiralty or, subject to any regulations or directions made or given by the Admiralty, any other authority by whom the sentence is suspended, may direct that any other punishment which the suspended sentence involves shall be suspended or remitted; but except as aforesaid the suspension of a sentence under this section shall not affect any such other punishment.