Clause 90

by inserting, immediately after the words “a sentence of imprisonment”, the words “, reformative training, corrective training or preventive detention”; and

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsections:“(2) To avoid doubt, where a court has directed under subsection (1) that a sentence of imprisonment, reformative training, corrective training or preventive detention is to take effect on a date later than the date the sentence was passed —

the court may under that subsection further direct that the sentence is to take effect on another date; and

the court may release the offender, during the period before the sentence is to take effect, on bail or on the offender’s personal bond.(3) To avoid doubt, a court may under subsection (1) direct that a sentence of imprisonment, reformative training, corrective training or preventive detention is to take effect on a date earlier than the date the sentence is passed.(4) Where an offender has been remanded in custody, or remanded in a psychiatric institution (whether for observation or otherwise) under Division 5 of Part XIII, for an offence, a court must consider directing that a sentence of imprisonment, reformative training, corrective training or preventive detention, which is to be imposed for that offence, is to take effect on a date earlier than the date the sentence is passed.(5) Before directing the date on which a sentence of imprisonment, reformative training, corrective training or preventive detention, which is to be imposed for an offence, is to take effect, a court must consider all the circumstances of the case, including the following matters:

the date on which the offender was arrested for the offence;

the length of the period (if any) during which the offender was remanded in custody in relation to the offence;

the length of the period (if any) during which the offender was remanded in a psychiatric institution (whether for observation or otherwise) under Division 5 of Part XIII in relation to the offence;

the length of the period (if any), after the offender was arrested for the offence, during which the offender was not in custody.”.