Chapter IX — CONFIRMATION AND REVISION

Section 125Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences

Section 125: Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences

125. Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences

Subject to such restrictions, reservations or conditions, as may be contained in any warrant issued under section 122 or section 123, a confirming authority may, when confirming the sentence of a Force Court, mitigate or remit the punishment thereby awarded or commute that punishment for any punishment or punishments lower in the scale laid down in section 51.