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is made, or a licence is granted, in relation to a person:

   (a) until the parole period or licence period ends without the parole order or licence being revoked, or until the person is otherwise discharged from imprisonment, the person is to be taken to be still under sentence and not to have served the part of any sentence that remained to be served at the beginning of the parole period or licence period; and

   (b) if the parole period or licence period ends without the parole order or licence being revoked, the person is to be taken to have served the part of any sentence that remained to be served at the beginning of the parole period or licence period and to have been discharged from imprisonment.

"(2) Where a parole order or licence in relation to a person is, under subsection 19aq (2) or (4), to be taken to have been revoked as from the time immediately before the end of the parole period or licence period, subsection (1) has effect as if the parole period or the licence period had not ended without the parole order or the licence being revoked.

State and Territory laws providing for leave of absence, pre-release etc. to apply to federal offenders

"19azd. (1) A law of a State or Territory providing for a State or Territory offender to be granted leave of absence from prison, including leave of absence granted by order of a court, applies to a federal offender who is serving a sentence in that State or Territory as if the federal offender were a State or Territory offender serving an equivalent State or Territory sentence in that State or Territory.

"(2) A law of a State or Territory providing for a State or Territory offender imprisoned in that State or Territory to be released:

(a) up to 24 hours before the time at which his or her sentence would otherwise have ended; or

    (b) where the release day falls on a Saturday, a Sunday or a day which is a public holiday—on the last day before such a day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday;

applies to a federal offender who is serving a sentence in that State or Territory as if the federal offender were a State or Territory offender serving an equivalent State or Territory sentence in that State or Territory.

"(3) A law of a State or Territory providing for a State or Territory offender to be released from prison under a pre-release permit scheme

(however called) that is prescribed for the purposes of this subsection, applies to a federal offender who is serving a sentence in that State or