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| (1) When any person has been sentenced to punishment for an offence the President may at any time without conditions or upon any conditions which the person sentenced accepts suspend the execution of his sentence or remit the whole or any part of the punishment to which he has been sentenced. |
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| (2) Whenever an application is made to the President for the suspension or remission of a sentence the President may require the presiding judge of the court before or by which the conviction was had or confirmed to state his opinion as to whether the application should be granted or refused together with his reasons for such opinion. |
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| (3) If the person in whose favour a sentence has been suspended. or remitted fails to fulfill the conditions prescribed by the President, the President may cancel such suspension or remission; whereupon such person may if at large be arrested by any police officer without warrant and remanded by a Magistrate's Court to undergo the unexpired portion of the sentence. |
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| (4) Anything herein contained shall not be deemed to interfere with the right of the President to grant pardons, reprieves, respites, or remissions of punishment. |
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