South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts38—Release of prisoner from prison or home detention
(1) Subject to this
Act, a prisoner (other than a remand prisoner) will be released from the
correctional institution in which the prisoner is being detained on the day on
which the prisoner's sentence of imprisonment expires, unless released earlier
under any other provision of this Act, or under any other Act or law.
(2) Subject to
subsection (3), the Chief Executive Officer may, by instrument in
writing, authorise the release of a prisoner from prison or from home
detention on any day during the period of 30 days preceding the day on which
the prisoner is due, or would have been due, to be released from prison
pursuant to any other provision of this Act.
(3)
Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a prisoner who is serving a
term of imprisonment for default in payment of a pecuniary sum.
(4) In this
section—
"pecuniary sum" has the same meaning as in the Criminal Law
(Sentencing) Act 1988 .