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(1) Ordinary remission shall be calculated from the first day of the calendar month next following the date of the prisoners’ sentence. Ordinary remission shall not be granted for the broken period of a calendar month. A prisoner, unless sentenced on the first day of a month, shall not get remission for the month in which he has been sentenced. (2) The period spent outside the prison, on account of release on furlough or admission in hospital for treatment or custody parole, etc, which are included as part of a sentence, shall not be treated as a broken period. During such a period, the prisoner shall be eligible for earning ordinary remission. For periods spent outside the prison which is not included as part of a sentence such as interim bail, parole, escape etc prisoners shall not be eligible for earning ordinary remission. In such cases, while calculating quarterly ordinary remission, proportionate remission shall be deducted. NOTE. - A prisoner who has been released on regular bail shall be brought under the remission system on the first day of the calendar month next following his re-admission and be credited with any remission he may have earned before his release on bail or suspension of sentence. (3) In the case of a prisoner transferred from one prison to another while undergoing imprisonment, the period spent by him in the first prison, excluding the period spent as an undertrial prisoner, shall be calculated along with the period spent by him in the second prison, for grant of remission purpose. Annual good conduct remission.