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7. Reduction of sentence, and custody
(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister in any case in which a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee is convicted of an offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, to direct that there shall be deducted from that term a period not exceeding the period, if any, during which that person was in custody in connexion with that offence, either on remand or after committal for trial, including the period of the trial, before the sentence began or is deemed to have begun to run.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Minister in a case where he is satisfied that a protected prisoner of war accused of an offence has been in custody in connexion with that offence, either on remand or after committal for trial, including the period of trial, for an aggregate period of not less than three months, to direct that the prisoner shall be transferred from that custody to the custody of an officer of the armed forces and thereafter remain in service custody at a camp or place in which protected prisoners of war are detained and be brought before the court at the time appointed by the remand or committal order.