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 non-payment of fine When offence punishable with fine only: If
the offence be punishable with fine only: 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: 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.
69. Termination of imprisonment on payment of proportional part of fine: If, before
the expiration of the term of imprisonment fixed in default of payment, such a proportion
of the fine be paid or levied that the term of imprisonment suffered in default of payment is
not less than proportional to the part of the fine still unpaid, the imprisonment shall
terminate.
Illustration
A is sentenced to fine of one hundred rupees and to four months, imprisonment in default
of payment. Here, seventy-five rupees of the fine be paid or levied before the expiration of
one month of the imprisonment. A will be discharged as soon as the first month has
expired, if seventy-five rupees be paid or levied at the time of the expiration of the first
month, or at any later time while .A continues imprisonment. A will be immediately
discharged, if fifty rupees of the fine be paid or levied before the expiration of two months
of the imprisonment, A will be discharged as soon as the two months are completed, if fifty
rupees be paid or levied at the time of the expiration of those two months, or at any later
time while A continues in imprisonment, A will be immediately discharged.
70. Fine leviable within six years, or during imprisonment-Death not to discharge
property from liability : The fine or any part thereof which remains unpaid, may be levied
at any time within six years after the passing of the sentence/and if, under the sentence,
the offender be liable to imprisonment for a longer period than six years, then at any time
previous to the expiration of that period; and the death of the offender dose not discharge
from the liability any property which would, after his death, be legally liable for his debts.
71. Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences: where anything
which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is itself an offence, the
offender shall not be punished with the punishment of more than one of such his offences,
unless it be so expressly provided.