158. Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences. -(1) Subject to such restrictions, reservations or conditions as may be contained in any warrant issued under the Sec. 154 or Sec. 155 and to the provision of sub-section (2), a confirming authority may, when confirming the sentence of a court-martial, mitigate or remit the punishment thereby awarded, or commute that punishment for any punishment or punishments lower in the scale laid down in Sec. 71.
(2) A sentence of transportation shall not be commuted for a sentence of imprisonment for a term exceeding the term of transportation awarded by the Court.
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