Part 12Sentencing

Chapter 6Release on licence

Additional days

257Additional days for disciplinary offences

1

Prison rules, that is to say, rules made under section 47 of the Prison Act 1952 (c. 52), may include provision for the award of additional days—

a

to fixed-term prisoners, or

b

conditionally on their subsequently becoming such prisoners, to persons on remand,

who (in either case) are guilty of disciplinary offences.

2

Where additional days are awarded to a fixed-term prisoner, or to a person on remand who subsequently becomes such a prisoner, and are not remitted in accordance with prison rules—

a

any period which he must serve before becoming entitled to or eligible for release under this Chapter,

b

any period which he must serve before he can be removed from prison under section 260, and

c

any period for which a licence granted to him under this Chapter remains in force,

is extended by the aggregate of those additional days.