Prison Act 1952

26 Release on licence of persons sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention

(1) A person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention shall be detained in a prison for the term of his sentence subject to his release on licence in accordance with the following provisions of this section, and while so detained shall be treated in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made under section forty-seven of this Act.

(2) The Prison Commissioners 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 rules made under the said section forty-seven :

Provided that the Secretary of State may require the Prison Commissioners to release a person so sentenced at any time.

(3) A person shall, after his release on licence under the last preceding subsection and until the expiration of his sentence, comply with such requirements as may be specified in the licence, including, if the Prison Commissioners think it expedient, a requirement that he shall be under the supervision of such society or person as may be so specified:

Provided that the Prison Commissioners may at any time modify or cancel any of the said requirements.

(4) If before the expiration of his sentence the Prison Commissioners are satisfied that a person released on licence under subsection (2) of this section has failed to comply with any requirement for the time being specified in the licence, they may by order recall him to a prison ; and thereupon he shall be liable to be detained in prison until the expiration of his sentence, and, if at large, shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large.

(5) The Prison Commissioners may release on licence a person detained in a prison under the last preceding subsection at any time before the expiration of his sentence; and subsections (3) and (4) of this section shall apply in the case of a person released under this subsection as they apply in the case of a person released under subsection (2) thereof.

(6) If a person while released on licence, or after he is recalled to a prison, as aforesaid, is sentenced by a court in any part of Great Britain 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.