Portugal

The Portuguese Penal Code General Part (Articles 1-130)

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE III
JURIDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACT

CHAPTER IV
CHOICE AND DETERMINATION OF PENALTIES

SECTION IV
DISCOUNT

Article 80
Procedural measures

1- Detention, preventive imprisonment and obligation to stay at home, suffered by the defendant in the process in which he is to be sentenced, are discounted in full in the enforcement of the imprisonment penalty imposed on him.

2- If the penalty applied is a fine, the detention, preventive imprisonment and obligation to stay at home are discounted at the rate of 1 day of deprivation of freedom for, at least, one day fine.

Keywords

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



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