Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Act, 2012 (Act No. 8 of 2012)Chapter 4 : Legal Proceedings13. Reduction of sentence |
| 1) | Whenever a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee is convicted of an offence under this Act and is sentenced to imprisonment for a specified term, the period before sentence, if any, during which that protected prisoner of war or protected internee was in custody in connection with that offence, either on remand awaiting trial or during trial, must be deducted from that term. |
| 2) | For the purposes of subsection (1), deprivation of liberty of a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee required by his or her status as protected prisoner of war or protected internee must not be deducted from the term contemplated in that subsection. |