The Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009

Automatic remission of sentence

8.—(1) A detainee who has been sentenced to twenty-five or more days of service detention shall be entitled to a period of remission in accordance with this rule according to the following provisions.

(2) If his sentence does not exceed twenty-eight days he shall be entitled to a period of remission equal to the number of days by which the sentence exceeds twenty-four days.

(3) If his sentence exceeds twenty-eight days, he shall be entitled to a period of remission equal to one third of the period of his sentence, except that, if this would result in the detainee serving fewer than twenty-four days the period of remission shall be such as to require the detainee to serve twenty-four days.

(4) In this rule any reference to a sentence for a period of service detention is a reference to the period of service detention which the detainee would apart from this rule and rule 70 be required to serve, including any additional period of service detention which he would be required to serve in accordance with rules 51 and 52.

(5) If the detainee is serving two or more periods of service detention concurrently, remission shall be calculated under this rule in respect of each of those periods, and the date of final release shall be the later or last date so calculated.

(6) For the purposes of calculating a period of remission under this rule a fraction of a day shall be ignored.