1988 Ed.]
Criminal Procedure
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(a) on payment of the fine or the said amount to the officer responsible for the recovery thereof, or (if the person in respect of whom the order was made is in prison) to the Commissioner of Correctional Services, the order shall cease to have effect; and, if the said person is in prison and is not liable to be detained for any other cause, he shall forthwith be discharged;
(b) on payment to the said officer or to the Commissioner of Correctional Services of a part of the fine or of the amount due under the recognizance, the total number of days in the term of imprisonment shall be reduced proportionately, that is to say, by such number of days as bears to the said total number of days less one day the proportion most nearly approximating to, without exceeding, the proportion which the part paid bears to the amount of the fine or the amount due under the recognizance.
(6) In reducing the number of days in the term of imprisonment under subsection (5)(b), the term of such imprisonment to be reduced shall be deemed, at any given time, to have been reduced by any period of remission earned under the Prison Rules (Cap. 234, sub. leg.).
(7) For the purposes of this section, “court" includes the District Court. (Amended, 35 of 1976, s. 13)
Pardon
(Replaced, 12 of 1960, s. 4)
Power to grant conditional pardon
115. A magistrate or the court may, with the consent in writing of the Attorney General, order that a pardon be granted to any person accused or suspected of, or committed for trial for any indictable offence, on condition of his giving full and true evidence on any preliminary inquiry or any trial; and such order shall have effect as a pardon by the Governor, but may be withdrawn by the magistrate or the court on proof that such person has withheld evidence or given false evidence.
Effect of pardon
(Amended, 50 of 1911 and 1 of 1912, Schedule)
116. In every case where either a free or conditional pardon is granted to any person, the discharge of the offender in the case of a free pardon, and the performance of the condition, in the case of a conditional pardon, shall have the same effect as a pardon has in the like cases under the public seal.
(Amended, 50 of 1911 and 21 of 1912, s. 2) [cf. U.K. 1827 c. 28, s. 13]
Recording of pardon
117. (1) Whenever the Governor, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, is pleased to grant to any offender a pardon under the public seal or to issue any warrant for the commutation of any sentence of death, the Registrar shall be bound, on the direction of the Governor, to record such pardon or
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