Defence Act, 1954

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Date of commencement of sentences of penal servitude, imprisonment or detention imposed by way of substitution.

222.—Where a sentence (in this section referred to as the original sentence) imposed by a court-martial has had substituted therefor another sentence (in this section referred to as the substituted sentence) of penal servitude, imprisonment or detention, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) in case the original sentence was death, the substituted sentence shall be reckoned to commence on the day on which the original sentence was signed by the president of the court-martial;

(b) in any other case, the substituted sentence shall be reckoned to commence on the day on which the original sentence was signed by the president of the court-martial or such earlier date as the court-martial may have directed for the commencement of the original sentence.