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REMISSION OF PENALTIES ACT 1859

REMISSION OF PENALTIES ACT 1859 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law concerning the Remission of Penalties.{1}
[19th April 1859]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1892

REMISSION OF PENALTIES ACT 1859 - SECT 1
Penalties for offences may be remitted by the Crown although payable
to parties other than the Crown.

1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty... to remit in whole or in
part any sum of money which under any Act now in force or
hereafter to be passed may be imposed as a penalty or forfeiture
on a convicted offender, although such money may be in whole or in
part payable to some party other than the Crown, and to extend the
Royal mercy to any person who may be imprisoned for non-payment of
any sum of money so imposed, although the same may be in whole or
part payable to some party other than the Crown.