# Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, Section 2: Commutation of death sentence to sentence of imprisonment.


Where a person who has been sentenced to death has been pardoned on condition that he serves a term of imprisonment, that person shall be deemed to have been lawfully sentenced by the court before which he was convicted to imprisonment for the said term.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1953/14/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-2
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