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assumed or commenced to discharge those functions.
60.(1) The President may, after obtaining the advice of
the advisory committee appointed under article 61(a) grant to any person convicted of any
offence a pardon, either free or subject to
lawful conditions;
(b) grant to any person a respite, either
indefinite or for a specified period, of the
execution of any punishment imposed on
that person for any offence;
(c) substitute a less severe form of punishment
for any punishment imposed on any person
for any offence; or
(d) remit the whole or part of any punishment
imposed on any person for any offence or
of any penalty or forfeiture otherwise due
to the Republic on account of any offence.
(2) Except as otherwise permitted by or under an Act, the
exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) shall not be
held out, offered or promised in advance of conviction.
(3) Nothing in this article shall prevent the
establishment by an Act of systems of probation, parole or
release on license, or any similar system.
(4) Any reference in this article to a conviction or the
imposition of a punishment, penalty, sentence or forfeiture
includes a reference to a conviction or the imposition of a
punishment, penalty, sentence or forfeiture by a courtmartial or other military court.
(5) This article shall not apply in relation to any
conviction by a court established under the law of a country
other than Seychelles that has jurisdiction in Seychelles in
pursuance of arrangement made between the Government of
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