conditional

She was sentenced to 40 years in a mental hospital in 2018 and granted conditional release in July.

The act's fatal flaw was a conditional immunity clause - later ruled unlawful - which could have been used by ex-soldiers, or former paramilitaries.

The post-Mao reforms brought a measure of relief, but the reprieve was always conditional.

The bill aims to repeal the existing Legacy Act, which included a conditional immunity clause, later found unlawful by the Northern Ireland courts.

Brandt, a former councillor, was arrested in March last year and given a conditional caution the following month, requiring him not to contact Dame Penny, but he then left two voicemail messages for her.