Confirmation when required.
(a) any combination thereof:
irovided that when the residing Officer is
a District Civil Affairs Officer the term of imprisonment which may be imposed shall not exceed one year and the fine which may be inflicted shall not exceed one thousand dollars.
(2) In any case resulting in the imposition of a sentence
or sentences of
(a) imprisonment exceeding two years or consecutive.
terms of imprisonment exceeding two years in the aggregate (whether any such sentence be of imprisonment only or of imprisonment in default of payment of a fine); or
(b) a fine or fines exceeding a total of one thousand
dollars;
or
(c) whipping exceeding a total of six strokes;
the conviction and the sentence, or the convictions and the sentences, as the case may be, shall require confirmation by a resident of the Superior Court exercising jurisdiction in the place in which such District Court was held.
1ART IV
CONFIRMATION.
I owers of confirming authority.
12.
A confirming authority may
Review.
REVIEW
(a) uphold the conviction and sentence;
or
(b) uphold the conviction and reduce the sentence; ΟΥ
(c) quash the conviction and sentence and acquit the accused or order him to be retried by a Court of competent jurisdiction; or
(a) make such other order as justice may require:
irovided always that in no case shall a finding of acquittal be reversed.
13. (1) No appeal shall lie from a judgment, sentence or order of a Court, but any person aggrieved by any such judgment, sentence or order made against him may, if such judgment, sentence or order is subject to confirmation, within seven days of being notified of the order of the confirming authority, and if such judgment, sentence or order is not so subject, within fourteen days from the date thereof, apply by petition for review, The petition shall be in writing and addressed to the trial Court, which shall without delay forward it, together with a record of the proceedings, to the Legal Officer for onward transmission to the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer.
(2) In cases in which sentence of death has been passed, the Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer shall forward the petition and the record to the Chief Legal Officer for onward transmission to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer who shall forward them to the General Officer Commanding Military Forces, Malaya.
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