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(1) An inmate in a correctional centre who is serving a sentence imposed for civil contempt or for an offence under an enactment may be credited with 15 days of earned remission of his or her sentence for each month, and with a number of days calculated on a proportionate basis for each incomplete month during which the inmate has applied himself or herself industriously, as determined under any regulation made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, to the program of the place of confinement in which he or she is imprisoned.
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The first credit of earned remission must be made not later than the end of the month following the month the inmate is received into the correctional centre, and afterward credit must be made at intervals of not more than 3 months.
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An inmate credited with earned remission who commits a breach of the regulations applicable to inmates of the correctional centre is, at the discretion of the person by whom the breach is determined to be committed, liable to forfeit all or part of the earned remission that stands to his or her credit.
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