{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:61","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Authority of the Court in Determining Sentence","number":"61","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/61/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK II — PUNISHMENT","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 1. — General Provisions"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where the law allows for different kinds of punishments to be imposed for conviction of an offence, the Court may, within the limits set by law, impose one or more of the prescribed punishments and determine the amount of each punishment.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/61/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":58,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/58/?article=61&paragraph=p1#article-61-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where the law provides for a mandatory punishment or for a minimum punishment upon conviction of an offence, the Court must impose the mandatory punishment or no less than the minimum punishment, unless the law explicitly provides for an exception to the minimum or mandatory punishment.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/61/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":58,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/58/?article=61&paragraph=p2#article-61-p2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}