Provided that such right shall not without the consent of the victim or, as the case may be.
of the heirs of the victim, be exercised for any sentence awarded under Chapter XVI],
Section 55-A and proviso ins. by A.O., 1937.
56. Sentence of Europeans and Americans to penal servitude: [Rep. by the Criminal Law
(Extinction of Discriminatory Privileges) Act, 1949 (II of 1950), Schedule.]
57. Fractions of terms of punishment: In calculating fractions of terms of punishment,
imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for twenty-five
years.
58. Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until, transported: [Omitted by
the Law Reforms Ordinance, XII of 1972, S. 2].
59. Transportation instead of imprisonment: [Omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, XII
of 1972, S. 2].
60. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or
simple: In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be
of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to
direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such
imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be
rigorous and the rest simple.
61. Sentence of forfeiture of property: [Repealed by .the Penal Code (Amendment) Act,
XVI of 1921, S. 4].
62. Forfeiture of property, in respect of offenders punishable with death, transportation or
imprisonment : [Repealed by the Penal Code (Amendment) Ad, XVf of 1921, S. 4].
63. Amount of fine: Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount
of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive.
64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine: In every case of an offence
punishable with imprisonment as well. as fine, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine,
whether with or without imprisonment, and in every case of an offence punishable with
imprisonment or fine, or with fine only, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine, it shall
be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct by the sentence that,
in default of payment of the fine, the offender, shall suffer imprisonment for a certain term,
which imprisonment shall be. in excess of any other imprisonment to which he may have
been sentenced or to which he may be liable under a commutation of a sentence.
65. Limit to imprisonment for non-payment of fine when imprisonment and fine
awardable: The term for which the Court directs the offender to be imprisoned in
default of payment of a fine shall, not exceed one-fourth of the term of imprisonment,
which is the maximum fixed for the offence, if the offence be punishable with
imprisonment as well as fine.