Singapore legislation
Regulation 77
Regulation 77
Confinement and forfeiture during remand to be non-reckonable for purposes of remission order
Subregulation 1
This regulation applies to a prisoner —
to whom Division 2, 6 or 7 of Part 5B of the Act applies;
who was imprisoned for a period immediately before being sentenced to imprisonment (and not released during that period); and
who was punished with confinement in a punishment cell or forfeiture of remission under the Act during that period.
Subregulation 2
The following periods are prescribed for the purposes of section 50I(2)(e) of the Act as not reckonable in determining whether a sentence is served for the purposes of making a remission order under section 50I(1) of the Act:
one-third of the time which the prisoner is confined in a punishment cell under paragraph (1)(c);
the forfeiture of remission under paragraph (1)(c).
Subregulation 3
Nothing in this regulation applies to any confinement in a punishment cell or forfeiture of remission that is imposed for a prison offence committed before 1 September 2018.