Penalties Remission Act 1870 No 9a (NSW)

No. XIII.

An Act to amend tlie Law concerning the e™™"

Remission of Penalties, {jtth May, 1870.] —

TX7HEE-EAS penalties wliicli under penal statutes are made pay- Preamble.

able to parties other than the Crown cannot he remitted or pardoned by the Crown where no express provision has been made by the statute for that purpose and it is expedient that the law as to the remission of such penalties should be amended and made uniform Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—•

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1 . I t shall be lawful for the Governor to remit in whole or in OoTemor may remit

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 Boyal 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.

No. XIV.