Volume 73, Issue 95
Royal Gazette
15 November 2499
Section21.In calculating a period of time for imprisonment, the day on which the imprisonment commences shall be included and shall be counted as one full day, regardless of the number of hours.
If the period of time calculated is designated in months, thirty days shall be counted as one month. If it is designated in years, it shall be calculated in accordance with the official calendar years.
When an adjudged person has been imprisoned until completion of his term, he shall be released on the day following the day of such completion.
Section22.Imprisonment shall commence from the day the judgment is issued. But if the adjudged person has been detained before the court issues the judgment, the days of such detention shall be deducted from the period of time for his imprisonment according to the judgment, save where the judgment says otherwise.
In the event that the judgment says otherwise, the imprisonment according to the judgment, in which the days of detention prior to the adjudication of such case by the court have already been included, must not be over the maximum rate of punishment designated by the law for the committed offence. However, this is without prejudice to the provisions of section 91.
Section23.Whoever committed an offence carrying imprisonment and, in the case thereof, will be imposed by the court with imprisonment of not over three months, may, if he does not appear
