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PENAL SERVITUDE ACT 1857 - SECT 2

2. No person shall be sentenced to transportation; and any person who, if
this Act and the said Act had not been passed, might have been sentenced to
transportation, shall be liable to be sentenced to be kept in penal servitude
for a term of the same duration as the term of transportation to which such
person would have been liable if the said Act and this Act had not been
passed; and in every case where, at the discretion of the court, one of any
two or more terms of transportation might have been awarded, the court shall
have the like discretion to award one of any two or more of the terms of penal
servitude which are hereby authorized to be awarded instead of such terms of
transportation:....

Ss.3, 4 rep. by SLR 1892; 1953 c.14 (NI) s.29 sch.3. S.5 rep. by 1953 c.18
(NI) s.48 sch.5

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