The Army Act

Form of sentence of death

Commencement of sentence of transportation or imprisonment

Execution of sentence of transportation

Execution of sentence of imprisonment

Period of custody undergone by the officer or person to be set off against the imprisonment

Temporary custody of offender

Execution of sentence of imprisonment in special cases

Conveyance of prisoner from place to place

Communication of certain orders to prison officers

Execution of sentence of fine

Establishment and regulation of military prisons

Informality or error in the order or warrant

Power to make rules in respect of prisons and prisoners

Restriction of rulemaking power in regard to corporal punishment


EXECUTION OF SENTENCES 


Whenever any person is
sentenced by a court-martial under this Act to transportation or imprisonment, the term of his sentence
shall, whether it has been revised or not, be reckoned to commence on the day on which the original
proceedings were signed by the presiding officer or, in the case of a summary court-martial, by the court. 


LAWGIST

# 167 Commencement of sentence of transportation or imprisonment