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period, not exceeding three years, as may be specified in the order.
(2) The magistrate may, where he makes an order under this section, further order that the offender shall pay such costs of the proceedings or such damages for injury or compensation for loss (not exceeding five hundred dollars or, if a higher limit is fixed by any enactment relating to the offence, that higher limit) as he thinks reasonable, or both such costs and damages or compensation.
(3) An order made by a magistrate under this section shall, for the purpose of revesting or restoring stolen property and of enabling the magistrate to make orders as to the restitution or delivery of property to the owner and as to the payment of money upon or in connexion with such restitution or delivery, have the like effect as a conviction.
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(4) The magistrate may order the defendant in default of compliance with any order made under subsection (2) to
48 of 1949, s. 6. be imprisoned without hard labour for six months.
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36. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3), where a term of imprisonment is imposed by a magistrate in respect of the non-payment of any sum of money adjudged to be paid by a conviction or order, that term shall, on payment of a part of such sum to any person authorized by a magistrate to receive it, be reduced by a number of days bearing as nearly as possible the same proportion to the total number of days in the term as the sum paid bears to the sum adjudged to be paid.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), no person who has been sentenced to imprisonment in default of payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction or order shall be entitled to be discharged on the first day of his imprisonment except upon the payment in full of the sum in respect of which the sentence of imprisonment was imposed.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), where any person who has been sentenced to imprisonment in default of payment of a sum of money adjudged to be paid by a conviction or order earns under the Prison Rules any remission of the sentence, the term of his imprisonment
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