Commentary on Sections Part 12 - Sentencing Chapter 6: Release of Prisoners on Licence Section 241: Effect of direction under section 240 on release on licence
571.Section 241 ensures that time spent on remand counts towards time served under the sentence for the purpose of calculating whether or not an offender has served a particular proportion or period of his sentence. The application of these provisions to a sentence of intermittent custody is dealt with in subsection (2).