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Article 2

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Rule 5 of the Prison Rules 1964f1(which relates to remission of sentence) shall be amended by inserting in paragraph (2)(a)—

(a)

at the beginning, the words “in the case of a sentence for a term of more than 12 months,” and

(b)

after the word “imprisonment)”, the words “and in the case of a sentence for a term not exceeding 12 months, one-half of that total”.

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f1

S.I. 1964/388; rule 5 was substituted by S.I. 1968/440 and amended by S.I. 1972/1860, 1981/70, 1982/260, 1953/565