Section 135A: Petition to President
This section is inserted by Act No 3 of 2018, section 6.
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
135A. Petition to President
(1) Where, under this Act or any other enactment, a
convicted person has not been given full credit for the time he
spent in custody, he may petition the President with a view to
obtaining full credit.
(2) This section shall be in addition to, and not
in derogation from, the provisions of section 75 of the
Constitution.
(e) in section 147, in subsection (2), by deleting the words
“12 months” and replacing them by the words “2 years”;
(f) in section 200, in subsection (6)(a), by deleting the figure
“100” and replacing it by the figure “10,000”.
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- Can I petition the President if I wasn't given full credit for time spent in custody?