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Power to mitigate penalties.
Proviso as to penalties under Revenue Acts.
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63. [Recital.] Where by any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed a limited penalty or term of imprisonment is imposed on conviction of an offender before a justice or justices of the peace, it shall be lawful for any one of the said divisional justices before whom such conviction shall be had to reduce or lessen such penalty or term of imprisonment, in such manner as he may think fit: Provided always, that no penalty for the infringement of any Act relating to the revenue of customs or excise, stamps or taxes, shall be reduced by any such justice below the amount or proportion allowed in that behalf by the Act or Acts specially relating thereunto, without the consent of the commissioners of customs or excise or stamps and taxes respectively.
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