Armed Forces Act 2006
2006 CHAPTER 52
Commentary
First Group of Parts – Discipline
Part 12 – Service and Effect of Certain Sentences
Service of sentence
Section 301: Duration of sentences: persons unlawfully at large or on temporary release
586.This section provides for the duration of a sentence to be adjusted where the sentenced person spends any period of the sentence unlawfully at large or on temporary release. It provides that any period during which the person is unlawfully at large or has been temporarily released on compassionate grounds shall not count against sentence.
587.This provision applies to sentences of service detention and applies to custodial sentences where the period of absence occurs before the person arrives at the custodial establishment. The effect of the section is to extend the period of the sentence by the number of days that the person is absent, calculated according to the rules in subsection (5).
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