(1) Prisoners sentenced by court martial shall be granted ordinary remission of the period they pass in transit, or in military custody, before their admission in prison on the same scale as laid down in these rules.
(2) In the case of a prisoner, transferred from one prison to another while undergoing imprisonment, the period spent by him or her in the first prison, excluding the period spent as an under trial prisoner, shall be calculated along with the period spent by him or her in the second prison, for remission.
(3) Ordinary remission shall be calculated from the first day of the calendar month after the date of the prisoner's sentence, ordinary remission shall not be granted for the broken period of a calendar month and a prisoner, unless sentenced on the first day of a month, shall not get remission for the month in which he has been sentenced.
(4) No prisoner shall receive ordinary remission for the calendar month of his or her release.
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(5) Period spent outside the prison, such as release on leave, which are included as part of a sentence, should not be treated as broken periods, during such periods the prisoner shall be eligible for earning ordinary remission, for periods spent outside the prison which are not included as parts of a sentence (such as, bail, emergency release, escape and extradition) prisoners shall not be eligible for earning remission and in such cases, the prisoners shall be considered as eligible to earn remission from the first day of the calendar month following the date of their re-admission.
(6) In all such cases, the date for eligibility for annual good conduct remission shall be duly postponed, prisoners who have been released on bail, or whose sentence have been temporarily suspended, shall, on their readmission to prison, be credited with any remission they may have earned before their release on bail, or to the suspension of the sentence and they shall be brought under the remission system again on the first day of the calendar month after their readmission.