Preamble, [Margin: Act No. 6 of 1991.]

DECREE Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Extraordinary Vol. CXXIII, No. 75 dated 7th December, 1992 N.P.R.C. Decree No. 12 1992 [Coat of arms] Sierra Leone The Treason And Other Serious Offences (Special Military Tribunal) Decree, 1992 [Margin: Short title.] Being a Decree to establish a Special Military Tribunal for the purpose of trying Treason and other serious offences [7th December, 1992] [Margin: Date of Commencement.] PURSUANT to paragraph 3 of the Proclamation entitled "The Administration of Sierra Leone (National Provisional Ruling Council) Proclamation, 1992", the National Provisional Ruling Council makes and issues the following Decree— 4 No. 12 Treason and Other Serious Offences (Special Military Tribunal) Decree 1992 (2) A sentence of the Special Military Tribunal shall not be treated as a final and binding sentence of that Tribunal until confirmed: Provided that this subsection shall not affect the keeping of the accused in custody pending confirmation. (3) The confirming authority shall deal with the sentence of the Special Military Tribunal either by confirming or withholding confirmation. (4) In confirming the sentence of the Special Military Tribunal the confirming authority may— (a) in the case of a sentence of death, substitute for that punishment imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term which could have been imposed by the Special Military Tribunal for the offence in question; (b) in the case of a sentence other than a sentence of death, either remit in whole or in part the punishment awarded by the Special Military Tribunal or substitute for it some other punishment which could have been imposed by the Tribunal, being a punishment less severe than the one awarded by the Tribunal. (5) A sentence substituted by the confirming authority or any sentence having effect after the confirming authority has remitted punishment shall be treated for all purposes as a sentence of the Special Military Tribunal duly confirmed. (6) For the purposes of this section the confirming authority shall be a special authority to be established from among members of the National Provisional Ruling Council. [Margin: No appeal from decision of Tribunal or confirming authority.]