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| (1) In any case in which under section 296 a sentence of whipping is wholly or partially prevented from being carried into, execution the offender shall be kept in Custody till the court which passed the sentence can review it; and the said court may at its discretion either order the discharge of such offender or sentence him in lieu of whipping or in lieu of so much of the sentence of whipping as was not carried out to imprisonment for any term not exceeding that which the court is competent to inflict which may be in addition to any other punishment to which he may have been sentenced for the same offence. |
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| (2) Anything in this section shall not be deemed to authorize any court to inflict imprisonment for a term exceeding that to which the accused is liable by law or that which the said court is competent to inflict. |
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