BACK PREVIOUS SECTION NEXT SECTION BACK PREVIOUS SECTION NEXT SECTION | 28. Subject to sections 29, 30 and 31.1, the portion of the term of imprisonment that an inmate must serve before full parole may be granted is one-third of the term of imprisonment imposed on the inmate or seven years, whichever is the lesser. [SOR/79-88; SOR/91-563] | ||
| 29. Where an inmate is sentenced to imprisonment for life otherwise than as a minimum punishment, the portion of the term of imprisonment that the inmate must serve before full parole may be granted is seven years minus any time spent in custody between the day on which the inmate was arrested and taken into custody in respect of the offence for which he was sentenced to imprisonment for life and the day the sentence was imposed. |