(2) The authority or officer specified in subsection (1) may in the case of an offender so
sentenced direct that, until the orders of such authority or officer have been obtained, the offender
shall not be committed to prison or custody.
(3) The powers conferred by subsections (1) and (2) may be exercised in the case of any such
sentence which has been confirmed, mitigated or commuted.
156. Orders pending suspension. A confirming officer or an officer exercising powers of
summary trial may, when a person has been sentenced to imprisonment or detention, direct that the
offender be not committed to prison or to custody until the orders of the authority or officer specified
in section 155 have been obtained.
157. Release on suspension. When a sentence is suspended under section 155, the offender shall,
whether he has been committed to prison or to custody or not, be released forthwith.
158. Computation of period of suspension. Any period during which the sentence is under
suspension shall be reckoned as part of the term of such sentence.
159. Order after suspension. The authority or officer specified in section 155 may, at any time
whilst a sentence is suspended, order__
(a) that the offender be committed to undergo the unexpired portion of the sentence ; or
(b) that the sentence be remitted.
160. Reconsideration of case after suspension.__(1) Where a sentence has been suspended, the
case may at any time, and shall, at intervals of not more than four months, be reconsidered by the
authority or officer specified in section 155, or by an officer not below the rank of lieutenant
commander duly authorised by the authority or officer specified in section 155.
(2) Where on such reconsideration by the officer so authorised it appears to him that the conduct
of the offender since his conviction has been such as to justify a remission of the sentence, he shall
refer the matter to the authority or officer specified in section 155.
161. Fresh sentence after suspension. Where an offender, while a sentence on him is suspend
under this Ordinance, is sentenced for any other offence, then__
(a) if the further sentence is also suspended under this Ordinance, the two sentences shall run
concurrently ;
(b) if the further sentence is for a period of three months or more and is not suspended under
this Ordinance, the offender shall also be committed to prison or naval custody for the
unexpired portion of the previous sentence, but both sentences shall run concurrently ;
and
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