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Enacting Formula

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II LAND SURVEYORS BOARD

Part III PRIVILEGES OF LAND SURVEYORS

Part IV REGISTRATION OF SURVEYORS

Part V PRACTISING CERTIFICATES

Part VI MULTI-DISCIPLINE AND CORPORATE PRACTICE

Part VII DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AND REVOCATION OF LICENCES

Part VIII CONDUCT OF SURVEYS

Part IX GENERAL

Part X REPEAL, SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

THE SCHEDULE Consequential Amendments

 
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On 22/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 22/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 22/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 02/08/1991.
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Division 3 — Suspensions, remissions and
commutations of sentences
Power to pardon, suspend or remit sentence, etc.
333.
—(1)  Where a person has been sentenced to punishment for an offence, the President, acting in accordance with the Constitution, may grant a pardon, reprieve or respite, on such conditions as the President thinks fit, of the execution of the sentence, or remit the whole or any part of the sentence or any penalty or forfeiture imposed by law.
(2)  Where an application is made to the President for any of the reliefs mentioned in subsection (1), the President —
(a)
in the case of a sentence of death, shall act in accordance with Article 22P(2) of the Constitution; or
(b)
may in any other case, require the presiding judge of the court before or by which the person is convicted to state his opinion as to whether the application should be granted or refused, and the judge shall state his opinion accordingly.
(3)  If any condition on which a sentence has been suspended or remitted is, in the opinion of the President, not fulfilled, the President may cancel the suspension or remission, and upon such cancellation, the person in whose favour the sentence has been suspended or remitted may, if at large, be arrested by a police officer without warrant and remanded to undergo the unexpired portion of the sentence.
(4)  Subsection (3) does not apply to a sentence of death.
Power to commute punishment
334.  The President may —
(a)
commute a sentence of death for a sentence of imprisonment or fine or both; or
(b)
commute a sentence of imprisonment for a sentence of fine.