Eligibility for release
6 Life prisoners.
1
When Commissioners grant a declaration to a life prisoner in relation to a sentence they must specify a day which they believe marks the completion of about two thirds of the period which the prisoner would have been likely to spend in prison under the sentence.
2
The prisoner has a right to be released on licence (so far as that sentence is concerned)—
a
on the day specified under subsection (1), or
b
if that day falls on or before the day of the declaration, by the end of the day after the day of the declaration.
3
But if he would have a right to be released on or by the end of a listed day (within the meaning of section 4(3)) he has a right to be released on or by the end of the next non-listed day.