(1) If, after a disqualification order has been made, there is reason to believe that there is no longer a danger that the offender will commit serious unlawful acts of the kind mentioned in section 70(1) the court may suspend the order for a probationary operational period.

(2) The order must not be made before the expiry of one year. Any time of a provisional disqualification shall be credited to the period of disqualification under section 70(4) 2nd sentence. Any period during which the offender was kept in detention by order of a public authority shall not be so credited.

(3) If the disqualification order is suspended, section 56a and sections 56c to 56e shall apply mutatis mutandis. The operational period shall be extended by any time during which a sentence of imprisonment or a custodial measure, which was imposed on or ordered against the convicted person because of the offence, was served.