CHAPTER X.___COMFIRMATION AND REVISION OF FINDING AND SENTENCES.
119. Finding and sentence not valid unless confirmed. No finding or sentence of a general,
district or field general Court martial shall be valid except in so far as it may be confirmed as
provided by this Act.
120. Power to confirm finding and sentence of general Court martial. The finding and
sentence of a general Court martial may be confirmed by the 1[Chief of the Army Staff] or by an
officer empowered in this behalf by war rant of the 1[Chief of the Army Staff].
121. Power to confirm finding and sentence of District Court martial. The finding and
sentence of a district Court martial may be confirmed by an officer having power to convene a
general Court martial or by any officer empowered in this behalf by warrant of any such officer.
122. Limitation of powers of confirming authority. A warrant issued under section 120 or
section 121 may contain such restrictions, reservations or conditions as the officer issuing it may
think fit.
123. Power to confirm finding and sentence of field general Court martial. The finding and
sentence of a field general Court martial may be confirmed by the convening officer or 2[, if it is not
practicable for the convening officer to do so by reason of his absence on leave or otherwise or the
convening officer so directs,] by an authority superior to him.
124. Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences. Subject to such
restrictions, reservations or conditions, as may be contained in any warrant issued under section 120
or section 121, a confirming officer may, when confirming the sentence of a Court martial, mitigate or
remit the punishment thereby awarded, or commute that punishment for any less punishment or
punishments to which the offender might have been sentenced by Court martial or if
1 Subs. by F.A.O., 1975 Art. 2 and Sch.
2 Subs. by the Pakistan Army (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1983 (39 of 1983), s. 5.
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