Part II Trial and punishment of offences
Suspension and reconsideration of sentences of imprisonment and detention
90 Suspension of sentences.
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 F2any case where a sentence is suspended under this subsection the sentence shall not begin to run until F3an order determining the suspension of the sentence is made under section 91(1) or 91B(1) of this Act and a committal order is issued .
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Where any person has been sentenced under this Act by a court-martial to imprisonment or detention F5or by the summary appeal court to detention, the court 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—
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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 F7an order determining the suspension of the sentence is made under section 91(1) or 91B(1) of this Act and a further committal order is issued .
3
Where a sentence is suspended under this section, F6the Defence Council or, subject to any regulations or directions made or given by F6the 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.