Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5B · Remission of Sentences
50O. Application
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This Division applies to all of the following prisoners:
a prisoner who is sentenced to life imprisonment, for an offence committed on or after 21 August 1997, whether or not he or she is also sentenced to one or more terms of imprisonment;
prisoner
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;
a prisoner whose sentence of death for an offence committed on or after 21 August 1997 is, or has been, commuted to life imprisonment under section 334 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 or section 238 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68, 1985 Revised Edition);
a prisoner who is sentenced to be detained during the President’s pleasure under section 213 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68, 1985 Revised Edition).