27. Release on licence
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After a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention has served such portion of his sentence as may be determined in accordance with these Regulations, the Minister, or a Second Minister, Senior Minister of State, Minister of State, Senior Parliamentary Secretary or Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Minister, may release that person on licence after considering the following:
the Commissioner’s report mentioned in regulation 24 in the case of a person sentenced to preventive detention;
the interests of the protection of the public if that person is released;
the character, conduct and prospects of that person.
The President may at any time require the Minister to release a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention.
Subregulation 1
After a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention has served such portion of his sentence as may be determined in accordance with these Regulations, the Minister, or a Second Minister, Senior Minister of State, Minister of State, Senior Parliamentary Secretary or Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Minister, may release that person on licence after considering the following:
the Commissioner’s report mentioned in regulation 24 in the case of a person sentenced to preventive detention;
the interests of the protection of the public if that person is released;
the character, conduct and prospects of that person.
Subregulation 2
The President may at any time require the Minister to release a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention.