Naval Discipline Act 1957

85 Commencement of sentences

(1) Except as otherwise provided by the following provisions of this Part of this Act, and by subsection (7) of section four of the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act, 1951 (which empowers the court in certain cases to direct that a sentence shall begin to run from the day upon which an application for leave to appeal is dismissed), any term of imprisonment or detention under a sentence awarded under this Act shall begin to run from the beginning of the day on which the sentence is awarded.

(2) For the purposes of the foregoing subsection a sentence awarded to a person tried summarily under section forty-nine of this Act shall be taken to be awarded on the day on which the warrant specifying the sentence, as approved in accordance with regulations made by the Admiralty, is read to the offender or, if the offender has been detained in custody since the signature of that warrant by the officer by whom he was tried, on the first day on which he was so detained.

(3) A committal order under section eighty-one of this Act may, if no place in which the sentence may be served is available where the offender is tried, direct that the term of the sentence shall begin to run on the date on which he reaches the place specified in the order; and in any such case the sentence shall be served accordingly notwithstanding that the offender may have previously returned to his duty or become entitled to his discharge, but the term shall be reduced by any period for which he has been kept in confinement in respect of the sentence during the interval.