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Ordinary remission shall not be granted in the following cases, namely:- (a) prisoners having substantive sentence (of either description) of less than three months; (b) any prisoner undergoing sentence in default of payment of fine; (c) in case prisoner’s sentence or total of sentences is reduced on appeal to less than three months, he shall cease to be eligible for ordinary remission and any remission that may have been earned before the reduction shall be forfeited. Similarly, when a sentence of less than three months has by subsequent conviction or otherwise, been raised to a sentence of three months, the convict shall be credited with ordinary remission from the first day of the calendar month following the month in which he was admitted to prison on his first or original conviction; (d) prisoner in whose case the Government or the competent court has ordered that remission shall not be granted; (e) prisoner who has been debarred from remission as per rule 115; (f) prisoner undergoing any punishment for major offence as defined in rule 95: (g) prisoner who has been in hospital as indoor patients for self-inflicted injuries for such period as shall be decided by the Superintendent; (h) prisoner who resort to hunger strike or work strike; (i) prisoner specifically barred from the remission system as per law; (j) convicts sentenced to rigorous imprisonment and not performing allotted labour. NOTE. - Prisoners sentenced under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (Central Act 61 of 1985) shall not be eligible for any kind of remission under these rules. Scale of ordinary remission and authority to award.