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

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE III
JURIDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACT

CHAPTER V
RELATIVELY UNDETERMINED PENALTY

SECTION III
COMMON PROVISIONS

Article 90
Conditional release and liberty on probation

1. Until two months before reaching the minimum limit of the relatively undetermined penalty, the prison administration sends the court its grounded opinion about the concession of conditional release, correspondingly applying the prescriptions of numbers 1 and 3 of the article 61, the article 63, and the numbers 1 and 2 of the article 64.

2. The conditional release has a duration equal to the time wanting to reach the maximum limit of the penalty, but shall never be superior to five years.

3. If the conditional release referred to in the previous numbers is not granted, or is revocated, the prescriptions in number 1 and 2 of the article 92, as well as in number 1 and 2 of the article 93, and the articles 94 and 95 are correspondingly applied, from the moment when the penalty of the committed crime is fulfilled.

Keywords

Early release - national proceedings



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