Ukraine

Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine

Section III

PROCEEDINGS IN TRIAL COURT

Chapter 28

DECREEING A JUDGMENT

Articles 338. Computing the term of serving the sentence

Whenever the defendant was kept in custody till the judgment has been pronounced, custody period is credited to the term of sentence.
If the defendant, when being in custody, was placed in a medical institution, time the defendant spent therein is credited to the term of sentence.
Whenever the defendant was kept in custody till the judgment has been pronounced, if the punishment in the form of correctional works was imposed, time the defendant spent in custody is credited to term of correctional works on the basis of one day of custody for three days of correctional works. If the defendant was sentenced to correctional works and after reconsideration of the same case – to imprisonment, the time of correctional works served is credited to the term of imprisonment on the basis of three days of correctional works for one day of imprisonment.

Keywords

Reduction of national sentence following pre-trial detention - national proceedings



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