Cap. 77 Art. 4ARehabilitation Certificate.

(1) Any person to whom a certificate in accordance with

Form B in the First Schedule is issued or may be issued in accordance with paragraph (b) of article 4, may apply to the Rehabilitation

Certificates Board established by article 4B to be issued with a Rehabilitation Certificate.

(2) The application referred to in sub-article (1) shall be made by not later than two (2) months prior to the date of the applicant’s release from the correctional facility and the Rehabilitation Certificate shall be issued on the day of release of the applicant from the correctional facility or by not later than fifteen (15) days thereafter: Provided that the Rehabilitation Certificates Board may within three (3) months from the coming into force of this article or in exceptional cases and for good reason receive an application and issue a certificate not within the time limits provided for in this sub-article.

(3) A Rehabilitation Certificate shall be strictly factual and shall list the rehabilitative programmes in which the applicant has participated whilst serving the sentence, and it shall also indicate whether the applicant was subjected to disciplinary punishments during that period due to his behaviour in the correctional facility. The certificate shall be issued by the Rehabilitation Certificates Board after verifying the relevant facts either directly or through a sub-committee thereof.