National Defence Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. N-5)

Marginal note:Committal after suspension

• 218. (1) A suspending authority may, at any time while a punishment is suspended, direct the authority empowered to do so to commit the offender and, after the date of the committal order, that punishment ceases to be suspended.

• Marginal note:Term where suspended punishment put into execution

  (2) Where a punishment that has been suspended under subsection 215(1) is put into execution, the term of the punishment shall be deemed to commence on the date on which it is put into execution, but there shall be deducted from the term any time during which the offender has been incarcerated following pronouncement of the sentence.

Marginal note:Committing authority

• 219. (1) The Minister may prescribe or appoint authorities for the purposes of this section and section 220 and, in this section and section 220, an authority prescribed or appointed under this subsection is referred to as a “committing authority”.

• Marginal note:Warrants for committal

  (2) A committal order, in such form as is prescribed in regulations, made by a committing authority is a sufficient warrant for the committal of a service convict, service prisoner or service detainee to any lawful place of confinement.

• Marginal note:Authority for transfer

  (3) A committing authority may, by warrant, order that a service convict, service prisoner or service detainee be transferred, from the place to which that convict, prisoner or detainee has been committed to undergo punishment, to any other place in which that punishment may lawfully be put into execution.

• Marginal note:Custody pending delivery on committal and during transfer

  (4) A service convict, service prisoner or service detainee, until delivered to the place where that convict, prisoner or detainee is to undergo punishment or while being transferred from one such place to another such place, may be held in any place, either in service custody or in civil custody, or at one time in service custody and at another time in civil custody, as occasion may require, and may be transferred from place to place by any mode of conveyance, under such restraint as is necessary for the safe conduct of that convict, prisoner or detainee.

Marginal note:Committal of service convicts

• 220. (1) A service convict whose punishment of imprisonment for life or for two years or more is to be put into execution shall as soon as practicable be committed to a penitentiary to undergo punishment according to law, except that a committing authority may, in accordance with regulations made by the Governor in Council, order that a service convict be committed to a service prison to undergo the punishment or any part of the punishment.

• Marginal note:Committal when unexpired term less than two years

  (2) Where a committing authority orders the committal to a penitentiary of a service convict, part of whose punishment has been undergone in a service prison, the service convict may be so committed notwithstanding that the unexpired portion of the term of that punishment is less than two years.

• Marginal note:Committal of service prisoners

  (3) A service prisoner whose punishment of imprisonment for less than two years is to be put into execution shall as soon as practicable be committed to a civil prison to undergo punishment according to law, except that a committing authority may, in accordance with regulations made by the Governor in Council, order that a service prisoner be committed to a service prison or detention barrack to undergo the punishment or part thereof.

• Marginal note:Committal of service detainees

  (4) A service detainee whose punishment of detention is to be put into execution shall as soon as practicable be committed to a detention barrack to undergo the punishment.