33. The Parole Act 1976 applies in relation to a term of imprisonment required to be served by a person as a result of the cancellation of a periodic detention order under section 29 or 30 as if—
(a) for the purposes of section 7 of that Act, the court had made an order sentencing the person to the relevant term of imprisonment; or
(b) for the purposes of section 8 of that Act, a reference in that section to a previous sentence included that term of imprisonment.