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penal servitude to be inflicted as to cause a convicted person to be kept in penal servitude for a less term in all than one year.
In computing the term of imprisonment which a convicted person has suffered, or to which he is liable, under any sentence, no account shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken of any imprisonment inflicted, or liability to imprison- ment which may be inflictal, on non-payment of a fine.
17.-Commencement of Punishment.
Except as in the last section aforesaid, a sentence of penal servitude or imprisonment upon a conviction of felony or misdemeanour shall take effect from the first day of the Sittings of the Court at which the offender is convicted, and a sentence
of imprisonment on a conviction for a simple offence shall take effect from the date of the offender being taken into custody under the conviction.
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18.—Effect of Escape on Punishment.
person who
escapes from lawful custody while undergoing a sentence of penal servitude or imprisonment is liable upon recapture to undergo the punishment which he was undergoing at the time of his escape, for a term equal to that during which he was absent from prison, after the escape and before the expiration of the term of his original sentence, whether at the time of his recapture the term of that sentence has or has not expired.
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12.-Recognisances to keep the Peace and be of good
Behaviour.
A person convicted of an offence not punishable with death A. 15. may, instead of, or in addition to, any punishment to which he B. 19 (8)
liable, be ordered to enter into his own recognisances, with or Jam.26 (7.)× without sureties, in such amount as the Court thinks fit, that he shall keep the peace and be of good behaviour for a time to be fixed by the Court, and may be ordered to be imprisoned until such recognisance, with sureties if so directed, is entered into; but so that the imprisonment for not entering into the recognisance shall not extend for a term longer than if the imprisonment were inflicted on non-payment of a fine, and shall in no case exceed one year.
13.-Recognisances to come up for Judgment.
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When a person is convicted of an offence not punishable C. 18 (9),- with death, the Court may, instead of passing sentence, dia. 656. charge the offender upon his entering into his own recognisances, with or without sureties, in such sum as the Court may think fit, to appear and receive judgment at some future sittings of the Court or when called upon.
14.—Discharge without Verdict.
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In any case where the Court considers that the offence A. 14. deserves no more than a nominal punishment, the Court may, 0.657 in its discretion, after all the evidence has been heard, direct the discharge of the accused person, without taking any verdict, and such discharge shall have all the effects of an acquittal.
15.-Reformatories.
Where any person between the ages of seven and sixteen is A. 19. convicted of an offence punishable with death, penal servitude, B. 18. or imprisonment, the Court may in substitution of other C. 18. punishment, or in addition to a sentence of imprisonment, sentence him to be detained in a reformatory for such a time and in such a manner as the law directs.
16.—Cumulative Sentences.
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When a person convicted of an offence before any Court is A. 18 then serving, or is liable to serve, a term of penal servitude or B. 17. imprisonment, the Court may direct that any terin of penal Jam. 27. servitude or imprisonment which they inflict shall commence after the other term of penal servitude or imprisonment;
Provided that no person shall be liable under this section to be sentenced to any punishment which would involve his continuous imprisonment for more than two years and six months; and if the Court before whom any person is convicted could, but for this proviso, have power to inflict a term of imprisonment which would produce this result, they may commute the term of imprisonment which the convicted person has still to suffer under a former sentence to a term of penal servitude of the same length as such term of imprisonment, and sentence him to an additional term of penal servitude not exceeding the term of imprisonment they have power to inflict; but this proviso shall not permit any such term of
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