33. Revision of minor punishments. -(1) If a m in or punishment awarded under section 82 appears to any officer superior in command to the officer who awarded the punishment to be wholly illegal, he shall direct that the award be cancelled and the entry in the records of the accused be expunged. (2) If such minor punishment appears to any such superior officer to be in excess of the punishment authorised by law for the offence, he may vary the punishment awarded so that it shall not be in excess of the punishment authorised by law, and the entry in the record of the accused shall be varied according. (3) If such minor punishment appears to any such superior officer to be the severe having regard to all the circumstances of the case, he may remit the whole or part of the punishment awarded and such remission shall be entered in the records of the accused.
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