(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 punishments lower 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.
(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.