Section 7: Reduction of sentence and custody
consolidated text (as at 2003). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
7. Reduction of sentence and custody
(1) Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee is convicted of an offence, the Court shall—
(a) in fixing a term of imprisonment or penal servitude in respect of
the offence, deduct from the term which it would otherwise
have fixed any period during which the convicted person has
been in custody in connection with that offence before the trial;
and
(b) in fixing any penalty, other than imprisonment or penal servitude, in respect of the offence, take that period of custody into
account.
(2) Where the Minister is satisfied that a protected prisoner of war accused
of an offence has been in custody in connection with that offence, while
awaiting trial, in a place other than a camp or place in which protected prisoners of war are detained, for an aggregate period of not less than 3 months, the
Minister may direct that the prisoner shall be transferred from that custody to
the custody of the Police and then remain in custody at a place in which protected prisoners of war are detained, and be brought before the Court at the
time appointed for his trial.