HC Deb 26 April 1967 vol 745 c1672

(1) The Secretary of State may, if recommended to do so by the Prison Licensing Board, release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life or a person detained under section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (young offenders convicted of grave crimes), but shall not do so in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment for life or to detention during Her Majesty's pleasure or for life except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available.

(2) Subsections (3) and (3A) of section 41 of this Act shall apply in relation to a licence under this section as they apply in relation to a licence under that section.

(3) A licence granted under this section to any person sentenced under section 53(2) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 to be detained otherwise than for life shall, unless previously revoked under section 42 of this Act, remain in force until a date specified in the licence, being the date of the expiration of the sentence.—[Mr. Roy Jenkins.]

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.