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1) Subject to such restrictions, reservations or conditions as may be contained in any warrant issued under (section 154) or (section 155) and to the provision of sub-section (2), a confirming authority may, when confirming the sentence of a court-martial, mitigate or remit the punishment thereby awarded, or commute that punishment for any punishment or punish' ments low6r in the scale laid down in (section 71).
(2) A sentence of transportation shall not be commuted for a sentence of imprisonment for a term exceeding the term of transportation awarded by the Court.