300/1958
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CAP. 227]
[s. 66 cont.]
Scale of payment of money adjudged to
42 & 43 Vict. c. 49, s. 5.
Magistrates.
the satisfaction of a magistrate, that the person making the default in payment of such civil debt, instalment or costs either has, or has had since the date of the order, the means to pay the sum in respect of which he has made default and has refused or neglected or refuses or neglects to pay the same, and in any such case the magistrate shall have power to imprison the defendant for three weeks, unless the same shall be sooner paid.
(2) Proof of the means of the person making default may be given in such manner as the magistrate to whom application is made for commitment to prison may think just.
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Scale of imprisonment for non-payment of money, etc.
67. Unless in any enactment it is otherwise provided, imprisonment the period of imprisonment, with or without hard labour, which may be imposed by a magistrate exercising summary jurisdiction, in respect of the non-payment of any sum of money adjudged to be paid by a conviction, whether it be a fine or in respect of the property the subject of the offence, or in respect of the injury done by the offender, or in respect of the default of a sufficient distress to satisfy any such sum, shall be such period as, in the opinion of the magistrate, will satisfy the justice of the case, but shall not exceed in any case the maximum fixed by the following scale-
24 of 1949, s.20.
Where the amount-
does not exceed $20
exceeds $20 but does not exceed $50
$50 $100
$100 $500
$500 $1,000
the period of imprisonment
shall not exceed―
7 days
14 days
1 month
2 months
3 months
6 months
Where the fine or other sum adjudged to be paid is imposed by a sentence in addition to a term of imprisonment, the imprisonment imposed under this section or any other enactment shall commence from the expiration of the term of imprisonment imposed by the sentence.
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