'Enforcement of national penalties - imprisonment' in document 'Timor-Leste - Criminal Procedure Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE

PART II
ON ORDINARY PROCEDURES

TITLE IV
ON EXECUTION

CHAPTER II
ON THE EXECUTION OF A PRISON SENTENCE

Article 328
Beginning and end of imprisonment

1. A convicted person punished with imprisonment begins serving the sentence upon his or her admission to the prison establishment and such a sentence ends with his or her release on the morning of the last day of the sentence.

2. In order to start or finish serving his or her sentence, a convicted person is admitted to or discharged from a prison establishment by means of a writ issued by the trial judge.