Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5B · Remission of Sentences
50ZB. Remission of default sentences
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A prisoner to whom this Division applies is, upon the prisoner’s admission to prison, entitled to have his or her sentence remitted in accordance with this section.
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;
Section 50I applies to a prisoner to whom this Division applies, subject to the following modifications:
the Commissioner is not required to make a remission order; and
on the day the Commissioner would have been required to make a remission order under section 50I, the sentence of the prisoner is remitted.