Singapore legislation
Schedule 3
Schedule 3
Release on licence of persons sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention
THIRD SCHEDULESection 12(4).Release on licence of persons sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention
1. The Minister may release on licence a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention after he has served such portion of his sentence as may be determined in accordance with rules made under section 407:Provided that the President may require the Minister to release a person so sentenced at any time.
2. A person shall, after his release on licence under paragraph 1 and until the expiration of his sentence, comply with such requirements as may be specified in the licence including, if the President thinks it expedient, a requirement that he shall be under the supervision of such society or person as may be so specified:Provided that the President may at any time modify or cancel any of the said requirements.
3. If before the expiration of his sentence the President is satisfied that a person released on licence under paragraph 1 has failed to comply with any requirement for the time being specified in the licence, he may by order recall him to a prison; and thereupon he shall be liable to be detained in the prison until the expiration of his sentence, and, if at large, shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large.
4. The President may release on licence a person detained in a prison under paragraph 3 at any time before the expiration of his sentence; and paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply in the case of a person released under this paragraph as they apply in the case of a person released under paragraph 1.
5. If any person while released on licence, or after he is recalled to a prison, as aforesaid, is sentenced by a court to corrective training or preventive detention, the sentence by virtue of which he is on licence or has been recalled shall cease to have effect; and if any such person is so sentenced to imprisonment, any period for which he is imprisoned under that sentence shall count as part of the period for which he is liable to detention under the original sentence.