SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Transitional Provisions and Savings

Release of prisoners, etc. on licence

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A 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.