Part XI Detention of Persons, Forfeiture and Legal Proceedings
General provisions as to legal proceedings
152 Powers of Commissioners to mitigate penalties, etc.
The Commissioners may, as they see fit—
(a)
(b)
restore, subject to such conditions (if any) as they think proper, any thing forfeited or seized under those Acts; or
(c)
F3after judgment, mitigate or remit any pecuniary penalty imposed under those Acts; or
(d)
F4order any person who has been imprisoned to be discharged before the expiration of his term of imprisonment, being a person imprisoned for any offence under those Acts or in respect of the non-payment of a penalty or other sum adjudged to be paid or awarded in relation to such an offence or in respect of the default of a sufficient distress to satisfy such a sum;
but paragraph (a) above shall not apply to proceedings on indictment in Scotland.