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(4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, if on the day fixed under this section—

(a) any part of the adjudged sum remains unpaid; and

(b) the offender fails to appear in person before the court,

the court may issue a warrant to arrest him and bring him before the court; and subsections (4) and (5) of section 70 of the 1952 c. 55.Magistrates’ magistrates Courts Act 1952 (execution of warrant for securing appearance of offender at means inquiry) shall apply in relation to a warrant issued under this section.

(5) Where under subsection (3) above a later day has in the absence of the offender been fixed in substitution for a day previously fixed under this section, the court shall not issue a warrant under this section unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the court, on oath or in such other manner as may be prescribed, that notice in writing of the substituted day was served on the offender not less than what appears to the court to be a reasonable time before that day.”.

7.—(1) Section 60 (release on licence of persons serving determinate sentences) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3) (which by virtue of paragraph (b) provides for the release on licence of a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of eighteen months or more who was under the age of twenty-one when the sentence was passed), at the end add—

“Provided that in England and Wales a person within paragraph (b) of this subsection shall not be released on licence by virtue of this subsection after he has attained the age of twenty-two.”.

(3) After subsection (5) insert—

(5A) A licence granted to any person under this section in England and Wales shall, unless previously revoked under section 62 of this Act, remain in force until a date specified in the licence, being—

(a) in the case of a licence granted to a person in respect of whom an extended sentence certificate was issued when sentence was passed on him, the date of the expiration of the sentence;

(b) in the case of a licence granted under subsection (1) of this section to a person who was under the age of twenty-one when sentence was passed on him and is released on licence before attaining the age of twenty-two—

(i) if the date on which he attains the age of twenty-two is earlier than the remission date, the remission date;