CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 1982 - SECT 39
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 1982 - SECT 39
39—Time of release from prison
(1) A prisoner must be
released from the correctional institution in which the prisoner is being
detained as near as practicable to 10 a.m. on the day of the prisoner's
release.
(3) Where a
contempt prisoner purges his or her contempt or complies with the court order
for payment of a pecuniary sum, and does so between 5 p.m. on one day and
9 a.m. on the next day, the manager of the correctional institution is
not, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other Act or law,
required to release the prisoner from the institution until that next day, at
some time after 10 a.m.