s.7Minimum periods of incarceration
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Section 7Part 0 —

Minimum periods of incarceration

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Prisoners shall be eligible for conditional release as follows —
prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for life shall be eligible to be considered for conditional release on licence after serving the minimum period of incarceration imposed under section 14(1);
prisoners serving a term of imprisonment exceeding one year, other than prisoners referred to in paragraph (a), are eligible to be considered for conditional release on licence after serving sixty per cent of the sentence imposed by a court; and
prisoners who are sentenced to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year shall be released by the Director of Prisons after serving sixty per cent of the sentence imposed by a court, but may be held for a longer period in accordance with any remission they may have forfeited under the Prison Law, 1975 [Law 14 of 1975] or regulations made thereunder.
Where a prisoner who is serving a sentence is convicted of another offence and a consecutive sentence is imposed for the additional offence, the sentences shall, for purposes of subsection (1), be treated as one sentence and the conditional release date shall be adjusted accordingly.
The Director of Prisons shall refer terminally ill or incapacitated prisoners to the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy but this does not limit any rights relating to conditional release.

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