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LIMITED PENALTIES ACT 1864

LIMITED PENALTIES ACT 1864 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to the Mitigation of
Penalties.
[29th July 1864]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1893

LIMITED PENALTIES ACT 1864 - SECT 1
Minimum penalty fixed by public Act not to be reduced under any
local or private Act.

1. Where any public Act of Parliament provides that in respect of
any offence therein mentioned a penalty is to be imposed of not
less than a particular sum of money, or of not less than a
certain term of imprisonment or other punishment therein specified,
it shall not be lawful for the justices or court having cognizance
of such offence to mitigate such penalty below the limit specified
in that Act of Parliament, in pursuance of any power of mitigating
penalties conferred on such justices or court by any local or
private Act of Parliament.

LIMITED PENALTIES ACT 1864 - SECT 2
Short title.

2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Limited
Penalties Act, 1864."