Section 67

(2) Where tlle finding only is sent back for revision, the Court may revise the sent.ence also. (3) The confirming authority may, in confirming the sentence of an Indian Marine Court,-- - (a) reduce the punishment thereby awarded, or con~mute that punisliment to any other punishment of inferior degree to nlhich the offender might have been sentenced by the Court ; - (b) suspend for such time as seems expedient the execution of the sentence ; - (c) if the finding or sentence is informally expressed, vary tlie form thereof, or, if tlie sentence is invalid, substitute a valid sentence ,therefor. (4) Notwithstanding any error, omission or irregularity in any proceeding of an Indian Marine Court, the confirming authority may sonfirm the finding or sentence of the Court, or either of them, unless the error, omission or irregularity has, in the opinion of that authority, occasioned a failure of justice. Evidence. 68, The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, subject to Lam of lvi- such modifications therein as the Governor General in Council may, by notification in tlie Gazette of India, direct, shall apply to all proceedings before Inciian Marine Courts. a ~ ~ l i - Prese~*vation qf P~oceedings. `69,` ( I ) The proceedings of all Illdial1 Marine preservation of Indian Conr ts - Tedium Marine. [ACT xlv - (Chctj~teg* I P.-Imdiaa Marirre Cou~ts.--Section 70. Chaptel* T.-Supplemental Qvirni9zal P~ouisioms. Seclion 71.) Marine Court Cmrts shall be preserved in the office of the Director proceedings and grant of Marine for not less than seven years in the case of of copies. the trial of a gazetted officer, or than three years in the case of any other persoa. 67. `(1)` Tlle confirming authority may send back Powers of the finding and sentence of an Indian Marine Court,, or either of them, for revision; and, on the finding or sentence being sent back, the Court may, if so directed by the confirming authority, receive additional evidence. (2) Any person tried by an Indian Marine Court shall be entitled, on demand at any time after the confirmation of the finding and sentence of the Court and before the proceedings are destroyed, to obtain from the oscer or person having the cu~tody of the proceedings a. copy tbzeof, upon. payment for the same at the prescxibed ate., 8 0 make Bules respectkg Prseedure. B o w e ~