PART IV
GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO
RELEASE ON LICENCE
Release on licence by Minister
27.  The Minister may release on licence a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention after he has served such portion of his sentence as may be determined in accordance with these Regulations, except that the President may require the Minister to release a person so sentenced at any time.
Requirement of licence
28.—(1)  A person shall, after his release on licence under regulation 27 and until the expiration of his sentence, comply with such requirements as may be specified in the licence including, if the President thinks it expedient, a requirement that he shall be under the supervision of such society or person as may be so specified.
(2)  The President may at any time modify or cancel any of the said requirements.
Failure to comply with requirements
29.—(1)  If, before the expiration of the sentence of a person released on licence under regulation 27, the President is satisfied that the person has failed to comply with any requirement for the time being specified in the licence, the President may by order recall the person to a prison.
(2)  The person recalled to prison under paragraph (1) shall be liable to be detained in the prison until the expiration of his sentence, and, if at large, shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large.
Release before expiration of sentence
30.  The President may release on licence a person detained in a prison under regulation 29 at any time before the expiration of his sentence, and regulations 27 and 28 shall apply in the case of a person released under this regulation as they apply in the case of a person released under regulation 27.
Subsequent sentence of corrective training, preventive detention or imprisonment
31.—(1)  If any person while released on licence under regulation 27, or after he is recalled to a prison under regulation 29, is sentenced by a court to corrective training or preventive detention, the sentence by virtue of which he is on licence or has been recalled shall cease to have effect.
(2)  If any person while released on licence under regulation 27, or after he is recalled to a prison under regulation 29, is sentenced to imprisonment, any period for which he is imprisoned under that sentence shall count as part of the period for which he is liable to detention under the original sentence.
Revocation
32.  The Criminal Procedure (Corrective Training and Preventive Detention) Rules (Cap. 68, R 2) are revoked.
Transitional provision
33.  Notwithstanding the revocation of the Criminal Procedure (Corrective Training and Preventive Detention) Rules (Cap. 68, R 2), such revocation shall not —
(a)affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the revoked Rules by any prisoner sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention before 2nd January 2011; or
(b)affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred by any prisoner referred to in paragraph (a) under the revoked Rules.