Pardon

(1) Whenever the Governor-General is pleased to extend mercy to any offender convicted of any offence for which he is liable to the punishment of death, on condition of his being kept to imprisonment for any term of years, or for life, such extension of mercy shall have the same effect, and may be signified in the same manner as in cases in which the Governor-General or the former Governor was, under former laws, pleased to extend mercy on condition of the offender being kept to penal servitude. (2) All courts, justices and others shall give a similar effect to the extension of mercy and the condition of pardon as they would have given effect under former laws when the Governor-General or the former Governor extended mercy on condition of the offender being kept to penal servitude. (3) The order for the execution of such punishment as the Governor- General may have made the condition of mercy 12 shall be substituted for the order for the execution of the punishment of penal servitude.