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### 86 Remissions
> [*\[Section 86 Substituted by No. 32 of 2019, s. 4, Applied:01 Nov 2020\]*](/view/html/inforce/2020-11-01/act-2019-032#GS4@EN)
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> > (1) In this section –
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> > > ***commencement day*** means the day on which this section, as inserted by the *Corrections Amendment (Prisoner Remission) Act 2019*, commences.
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> > (2) Subject to this section, the Director may, in accordance with regulations made in relation to the matters referred to in [section 90(2)(d)](#GS90@Gs2@hpd@EN) , grant to a prisoner who is in custody a remission of the whole, or any part, of one or more sentences of imprisonment under which the prisoner is serving all or part of a continuous period in custody.
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> > (3) Remission may only be granted in relation to a sentence of imprisonment in respect of a prisoner –
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> > > > (a) if the sentence was imposed on the prisoner before the commencement day; or
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> > > > (b) where the prisoner is in custody under more than one sentence of imprisonment – if at least one of those sentences of imprisonment was imposed on the prisoner before the commencement day; or
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> > > > (c) where the prisoner is in custody for a continuous period under different sentences of imprisonment for different parts of the continuous period – if at least one of those sentences of imprisonment was imposed on the prisoner before the commencement day.
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> > (4) The Director may not grant remission to a prisoner who is in custody for a period of imprisonment –
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> > > > (a) under a sentence of imprisonment imposed after 1 January 1994; or
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> > > > (b) that is imposed, in whole or in part, by one or more sentences of imprisonment, at least one of which was imposed after 1 January 1994 –
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> > if the remission would operate so as to reduce by more than 3 months the total period of imprisonment during which the prisoner would otherwise be in custody under one or more of those sentences.