Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) An offender must be released from imprisonment on the offender's release date for the sentence.
(2) The offender may be released from imprisonment at any time on the release date.
(3) However, if the release date is not a working day at the place of imprisonment, the offender may be released from imprisonment at any time during the last working day at that place before the release date if the offender asks to be released on that day.
Note Working day is defined in the Legislation Act
, dict, pt 1.
(4) If the offender is released under subsection (3), the offender's sentence is taken to have ended when the offender is released under that subsection.