Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine.
66. Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine.--The
imprisonment which the Court imposes in default of payment of a fine
may be of any description to which the offender might have been
sentenced for the offence.
67.
Imprisonment for
fine only.
non-payment of
fine, when
offence punishable
with
67. Imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when offence punishable
with fine only.--If the offence be punishable with fine only,
3*[the imprisonment which the Court imposes in default of payment of
the fine shall be simple, and] the term for which the Court directs
the offender to be imprisoned, in default of payment of fine, shall
not exceed the following scale, that is to say, for any term not
exceeding two months when the amount of the fine shall not exceed
fifty rupees, and for any term not exceeding four months when the
amount shall not exceed one hundred rupees, and for any term not
exceeding six months in any other case.
68.
Imprisonment to terminate on payment of fine.
68. Imprisonment
to terminate
on payment
of
fine.--The
imprisonment which is imposed in default of payment of a fine shall
terminate whenever that fine is either paid or levied by process of
law.
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Subs. by Act 8 of 1882, s. 2, for "in every case in which an
offender is sentenced to a fine".
2.
Ins, by Act 10 of 1886, s. 21(2).
3.
Ins by Act 8 of 1882, s. 3.
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69.
Termination of imprisonment on payment of proportional part of fine.
69. Termination
of imprisonment
on payment of proportional part