SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5E+W+STransitional Provisions and Savings

Release of prisoners, etc. on licenceE+W+S

6E+WA person serving any part of a sentence of imprisonment after the commencement of section 67 of this Act, being a sentence which fell to be reduced under section 17(2) of the M1Criminal Justice Administration Act 1962 (duration of sentence), shall, for the purpose of determining under section 60(1) of this Act whether he has served one-third of his sentence, be treated as if any period spent in custody between conviction and sentence and taken into account under the said section 17(2) were included in his sentence and as if he had served that period as part of that sentence.

Marginal Citations

7E+W+SA person sentenced to a term of imprisonment within the meaning of section 60 of this Act for eighteen months or more and subject immediately before the commencement of that section to a licence under section 25 of the M2Prison Act 1952 or section 20 of the M3Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 (release on licence instead of remission in the case of prisoners under twenty-one) shall be treated as if he had been released on licence under section 60(3)(b) of this Act and as if the requirements specified in the licence under the said section 25 or 20 were conditions specified in a licence under the said paragraph (b).

Marginal Citations

8E+WA person sentenced to a term of imprisonment for less than eighteen months and subject immediately before the commencement of the said section 60 to a licence under the said section 25 shall be subject to supervision under Schedule 1 to the M4Criminal Justice Act 1961 (supervision of persons released from detention centres) until the expiration of the period for which he would have been subject to supervision under the said section 25 and as if the requirements specified in the licence under the said section 25 had been specified in a notice given to him under that Schedule; and that Schedule and section 63(2) of this Act shall apply to any such person as they apply to a person mentioned in section 63(1) of this Act with the substitution for any reference in that Schedule to a period of twelve months from the date of a person’s release of a reference to the period between his release and the expiration of the time for which he would have been subject to supervision as aforesaid.

Marginal Citations

9E+WWhere a person was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for less than eighteen months and was immediately before the commencement of section 60 of this Act in prison by reason of having been recalled under the said section 25, the said Schedule 1 and section 63(2) shall apply to him as they apply to a person mentioned in the said section 63(1) subject to the modification mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph, and he shall be treated for the purposes of that Schedule as if he had been recalled thereunder.

10E+W+SA person subject immediately before the commencement of section 61 of this Act to a licence under any of the following enactments, that is to say, section 27 of the M5Prison Act 1952, section 21 of the M6Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 (persons serving imprisonment for life), section 53(4) of the M7Children and Young Persons Act 1933 or section 57(4) of the M8Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (young offenders convicted of grave crimes), shall be treated as if he had been released on licence under the said section 61 and as if the conditions contained in a licence under any of the said enactments had been specified in a licence under the said section 61 and, in the case of a person released after being sentenced under section 53(2) of the said Act of 1933 or section 57(2) of the said Act of 1937 to be detained otherwise than for life, as if a licence granted to him under the said section 61 had specified the date of the expiration of his sentence as the date until which the licence is to remain in force.

11E+W+SWhere any person sentenced to imprisonment for life or sentenced under section 53 of the M9Children and Young Persons Act 1933 or section 57 of the M10Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 to be detained was notified before the commencement of section 61 of this Act that the Secretary of State proposed to release him under any enactment mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph, the Secretary of State may release him on licence under the said section 61, whether or not recommended to do so by the Parole Board or the Parole Board for Scotland.

Marginal Citations

12E+W+SAny person who immediately before the commencement of sections 60 to 62 or section 69 of this Act was unlawfully at large or liable to be arrested without warrant under any enactment superseded by any provision of those sections shall, so long as he is at large, be (or continue to be) unlawfully at large.