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Section 295

Sentence of police supervision

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 252 of 411
Section 295
(1)

When a person having previously been convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term of two years or upwards is convicted of any other offence also punishable with imprisonment for a term of two years or upwards—

(a)

the High Court or a Sessions Court may direct that he be subject to the supervision of the police for a period of not more than three years commencing immediately after the expiration of the sentence passed on him for the last of such offences;

(b)

a Magistrate’s Court may direct that he be subject to the supervision of the police for a period of not more than one year commencing immediately after the expiration of the sentence passed on him for the last of such offences.

(1A)

When a person is convicted of an offence under section 376,

377C, 377CA or 377E of the Penal Code before any Court, whether or not he has previously been convicted of any offence, the Court shall

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direct that he be subject to the supervision of the police for a period of not less than one year and not more than three years commencing immediately after the expiration of the sentence passed on him.

(2)

When any person subject to the supervision of the police is, while still subject to such supervision, sentenced to a term of imprisonment within Malaysia any term spent in prison shall be excluded from the period of supervision.