Refreshment Houses (Ireland) Act, 1860

Power to justices to mitigate penalties.

35. It shall be lawful for the justice or justices before whom any person shall be convicted of any offence against this Act to mitigate, if he or they shall see cause, any penalty incurred for such offence; provided, that where any conviction shall take place on any information exhibited under the laws of Excise, such penalty shall not be mitigated to any less sum than one fourth part thereof.