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(b) The Working Group urges States to take appropriate measures, if necessary, to
ensure that warrants for detention on remand clearly establish the date of the expiry of the
applicable time limit;
(c) States should ensure that domestic legislation provides that prison authorities
have the power and are obliged to release pretrial detainees or convicted prisoners
automatically upon expiry of the prescribed time limit, without a specific release order by a
judge, magistrate, prosecutor, or other State authority which is competent to order
detention on remand or imprisonment, in compliance with the international human rights,
norms and standards the respective States have undertaken to observe.
Registration at detention facilities
84. In addition to the requirements of section 7 (1) of the Standard Minimum Rules for
the Treatment of Prisoners relating to registration books at detention facilities, the
Working Group is bound to encourage States to further include the following information
on the detainee: (i) the signature of the detainee upon entry, transfer or release; (ii) the
prescribed maximum duration of detention; (iii) date and time of transfer to another
detention facility, if applicable, and the authority therefor; and (iv) if applicable, the date
when the prisoner is eligible for early release on probation.
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