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90 Suspension of sentences.U.K.
(1)Where any person has been sentenced under this Act to imprisonment or detention, the authority having power under section eighty-one of this Act to issue a committal order may, in lieu of issuing such an order, order that the sentence be suspended; and in [any case where a sentence is suspended under this subsection] the sentence shall not begin to run until a committal order is issued under section ninety-one of this Act.
[(1A)Where any person has been sentenced under this Act by a court-martial to imprisonment or detention, the court-martial may itself exercise the power under subsection (1) above to order the suspension of the sentence.]
(2)Where any person has been sentenced under this Act to imprisonment or detention and a committal order in respect of that sentence has been issued under the said section eighty-one, the sentence may be suspended by an order made—
(a)in any case, by [the Defence Council] or by any officer holding such command as may be prescribed by regulations made by [the Defence Council];
(b)where the committal order was issued by an officer not holding such command, by that officer;
and in any such case the offender shall be released and the currency of the sentence suspended until a further committal order is issued in respect of that sentence under section ninety-one of this Act.
(3)Where a sentence is suspended under this section, [the Defence Council] or, subject to any regulations or directions made or given by [the Defence Council], any other authority by whom the sentence is suspended, may direct that any other punishment which the suspended sentence involves shall be suspended or remitted; but except as aforesaid the suspension of a sentence under this section shall not affect any such other punishment.
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