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INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PRISONERS ACT 1997 - SECT 4B

Suspended sentences of imprisonment

  (1)   Serving a sentence of imprisonment includes being subject to so much of the period of the sentence of imprisonment as involves a potential deprivation of liberty.

Note:   While a person is subject to a suspended sentence of imprisonment, he or she is treated under this Act as a prisoner serving that sentence of imprisonment.

  (2)   The suspended part of a sentence of imprisonment is so much of the period of the sentence of imprisonment as:

  (a)   involves a potential deprivation of liberty; and

  (b)   is not a period of release on parole.



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