Section 123
Penalties prescribed to be deemed maximum penalties
of Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967
ActIn forceProvision 125 of 134
Section 123
Whenever in any written law a penalty is provided for an offence against such law, such provision shall be deemed to indicate that such offence shall be punishable, upon conviction, by a penalty not exceeding (except as may be otherwise expressly mentioned in such law) the penalty provided.
[s. 51]