21 Credit for period of remand on bail: terms of imprisonment and detention
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (2008 c 4) | Legislation

Release and recall of prisoners

21  Credit for period of remand on bail: terms of imprisonment and detention

(1)     The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c 44) is amended as follows.

(2)     . . .

(3)     In the italic heading before section 240, after “custody” insert “or on bail subject to certain types of condition”.

(4)     After section 240 insert—

“240A Crediting periods of remand on bail: terms of imprisonment and detention

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a court sentences an offender to imprisonment for a term in respect of an offence committed on or after 4th April 2005,

(b)     the offender was remanded on bail by a court in course of or in connection with proceedings for the offence, or any related offence, after the coming into force of section 21 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, and

(c)     the offender's bail was subject to a qualifying curfew condition and an electronic monitoring condition (“the relevant conditions”).

(2)     Subject to subsection (4), the court must direct that the credit period is to count as time served by the offender as part of the sentence.

(3)     The “credit period” is the number

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