Article 2 Citation and commencement

For section 10(7) of the Act there shall be substituted—

“(7)

Nothing in this section shall permit the release of a prisoner following a declaration under section 3(1)—

(a)

before he has served two years of the sentence to which the declaration relates; or

(b)

at any time when an application under section 8(1) for revocation of the declaration has yet to be finally determined;

and for the purpose of paragraph (a) any period of custody by which the sentence is treated as reduced in accordance with section 26 of the 1968 Act shall be treated as served as part of the sentence.”.