This period is counted from the date of normal release or pardon or from the expiry of the sentence of deprivation of liberty and, where applicable, from the expiry the confinement for security to be served. The starting point of the period provided for in the previous paragraph is the day of the release on parole if it is not revoked. It is postponed to the day of payment of the fine pronounced, if this payment occurs after the dates provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this article or to the day on which the prescription of penalties and measures referred to in this article has effective. Any period of execution of penalties or measures involving deprivation of liberty or imprisonment for debt is automatically added to the period of deprivation fixed by the judge. Article 72: The judge may, by reasoned decision, relieve the convicted person of all or part of the deprivation of rights or reduce the period provided for in the first paragraph of article 71 to one year. Section 5: Military dismissal and stripping off rank Article 73: Military dismissal is perpetual. It entails: 1°) dismissal from the Armed Forces and the National Police; 2°) forfeiture of accrued ranks and the right to wear the insignia and uniform; 3°) inability to acquire new ranks; 4°) forfeiture of the right to wear decorations. Article 74: In the event of conviction for acts qualified as felonies, dismissal shall be compulsory if the sentence pronounced is one of deprivation of liberty for more than five years and optional if the sentence pronounced is less than or equals to five years. Article 75: Stripping off rank shall be mandatory in the event of a conviction against an officer, non-commissioned officer or member of the National Police to a suspended sentence or not of more than twelve months of deprivation of liberty for acts qualified as felonies, or to a sentence of deprivation of liberty which, even if less than twelve months, is accompanied by either a ban on appearing in certain places, or a deprivation of all or part of the rights provided for in article 68. Article 76: Dismissal and stripping off rank shall apply right from the day on which the decision becomes final, or from the day on which the formalities provided for by procedural laws are carried out in the case of conviction in absentia. The stripping off rank shall not prevent the acquisition of new ranks. Dismissal and stripping off rank shall be applicable to military reserve force and available personnel under the same conditions as to military personnel in service.