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LIMITED PENALTIES ACT 1864 - SECT 1 

Minimum penalty fixed by public Act not to be reduced under any local or private Act.

1. Where any public Act of Parliament provides that in respect of any offence
therein mentioned a penalty is to be imposed of not less than a particular sum
of money, or of not less than a certain term of imprisonment or other
punishment therein specified, it shall not be lawful for the justices or court
having cognizance of such offence to mitigate such penalty below the limit
specified in that Act of Parliament, in pursuance of any power of mitigating
penalties conferred on such justices or court by any local or private Act of
Parliament.

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