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Prison Act 1995 s 44

Prison Act 1995 s 44

s 44 Remission of sentence

(1) With a view to encouraging good conduct and industry and to facilitate reformative treatment, a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment of more than one month, shall be entitled to be granted a remission of his sentence. (2) All or any part of the remission for which a prisoner may be entitled may, on commission of an offence under section 50 or an offence relating to parole, be cancelled by the Commissioner General: Provided that in no case shall any forfeiture exceed the amount of remission earned at the time of commission of the offence. (3) The Commissioner General may restore to a prisoner all or any part of a remission which the prisoner has forfeited during his sentence. (4) A prisoner who is awarded a remission of part of his sentence shall be discharged upon the expiration of so much of his sentence as shall remain after deducting from it such part.

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Text as at 1 October 2009 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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