law: Armed Forces Tribunal Act 2007 
  24. Term of sentence
  
  and its effect on appeal
  1.  
  
    The
  
  term of any sentence passed by the Tribunal under clause (a) of subsection
  
  (6).of section 15 of this Act shall, unless the Tribunal otherwise directs, be
  
  reckoned to commence on the day on which it would have commenced under the Army
  
  Act, 1950, (46 of 1950) the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957) or the Air Force Act,
  
  1950 (45 of 1950) as the case may be, under which the court martial against
  
  which the appeal was filed, had. Been held.
  2.  
  
    Subject
  
  to the provisions of sub-section (3), any sentence passed on an appeal from the
  
  Tribunal to the Supreme Court in substitution for another sentence shall,
  
  unless the Supreme Court otherwise directs, be reckoned to commence on the day
  
  on which the original sentence would have commenced.
  3.  
  
    Where
  
  a person who is undergoing sentence is granted stay of the operation of the
  
  said sentence, either by suspension or otherwise, pending an appeal, the period
  
  during which he is so released due to the sentence having been so stayed, shall
  
  be excluded in computing the term for which he is so sentenced by the Tribunal
  
  or the Supreme Court, as the case may be.