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Part 4Prisoners etc.

Release of prisoners

37Extended sentences: recall to prison and revocation of licences

(1)The 1993 Act is amended as follows.

(2)In section 26A (which applies, with adaptations, the other provisions of Part I of the 1993 Act to prisoners who are subject to an extended sentence), for subsection (9) there is substituted—

(9)In relation to a prisoner subject to an extended sentence, the reference in section 17(5) of this Act to the prisoner being “liable to be detained in pursuance of his sentence” shall be construed as a reference to the prisoner being liable to be detained until the expiry of the extension period..