Section 32 deals with the automatic release of offenders who are not relevant young offenders.
	Subsection (2) inserts new section 255BA into the 2003 Act.
	Sections 255BA(1) and (2) provide for recalled offenders who are eligible for automatic release, but who are not relevant young offenders, to be re-released automatically after 56 days. Where an offender is recalled from HDC licence under section 254, the automatic release period is the later of 56 days and the requisite custodial period which they would have served had they not been released early under HDC.
	Sections 255BA(3) and (4) preserve the Secretary of State’s power to re-release an offender at any time if they meet the statutory release test.
	Sections 255BA(5) to (9) allow the Secretary of State to determine that an offender should not be released automatically where either (i) they reasonably believe the offender would pose a significant risk of serious harm by committing murder or an offence under Schedule 18 of the Code, or (ii) following recall they receive information that the offender is at risk of involvement in terrorism or state threat activity, would be managed under level 2 or 3 MAPPA, or has been charged with a further offence. If either of these conditions are met, the offender is dealt with under section 255C.
	Section 255BA(10) inserts a power for the Secretary of State to amend by order the period the offender must spend in custody following recall (in section 255BA(2)).
	Subsection (3) amends section 330(5)(a) of the 2003 Act to provide that the order to amend section 255BA(2) must be made by affirmative procedure.
	Subsection (4) inserts new section 255BA(4A) to include the amended statutory release test as set out in the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (relevant provision not yet commenced for the purposes of further release following recall).
Part 2: Management of offenders after sentencing Section 32: Further release after recall: other offenders suitable for automatic release