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3.—(1) Without prejudice to the operation of the Interpretation Act 1978(1), where, prior to the coming into force of these Rules, a prisoner has been temporarily released under rule 6 of the Prison Rules 1964 as then in force and is still at large at the moment these Rules come into force, he shall be deemed, after the coming into force of these Rules, to have been released under rule 6 of the Prison Rules 1964 as substituted by paragraph 2 of the Schedule to these Rules, notwithstanding the fact (if it be the case) that he would not have qualified for release under rule 6 as so substituted.
(2) Without prejudice to the operation of the Interpretation Act 1978, references in the following provisions of the Prison Rules 1964, however expressed, to rule 6 of those Rules shall be construed as including a reference to rule 6 of those Rules as in force prior to the coming into force of these Rules: rules 6(5)(b) and (6) (as substituted by these Rules) and 47(8).
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