5. The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the offender, commute any punishment under this Sanhita to any other punishment in accordance with section 474 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section the expression "appropriate Government" means,-
(a) in cases where the sentence is a sentence of death or is for an offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the Union extends, the Central Government; and
(b) in cases where the sentence (whether of death or not) is for an offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the State extends, the Government of the State within which the offender is sentenced.
Section 1 Short title, commencement and application
Section 3 General explanations
Section 5 Commutation of sentence
Section 6 Fractions of terms of punishment
Section 7 Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Section 8 Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc
Section 9 Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences