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Power to mitigate penalties.
Imprisonment for non-payment of penalties shall not be for less than three months.
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39. Any justice or justices of the peace may, when they shall see cause, mitigate any penalty incurred for any offence committed against this Act, as he or they shall think fit, so as such mitigation shall not in any case reduce such penalty to less than six pounds; and every such mitigation, and payment thereupon made, shall be a sufficient discharge of every such penalty to the person or persons convicted: Provided always, that no justice or justices shall commit any person to any gaol or prison for non-payment of any penalty adjudged against such person under the provisions of this Act, or of any mitigated amount thereof, for any period less than three calendar months.
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