Cap. 9 Art. 29Procedure in default of payment of fine (ammenda or multa).

(1) Any person sentenced to the payment of a fine (ammenda or and who is granted the benefit of time by order multa)

of the court according to the provisions of article 14(2), and who does not pay such fine in accordance with the conditions laid down in the same order, shall be liable to be arrested and brought before the court; and the court, upon ascertaining the identity of the person sentenced and that payment has not been paid according to the conditions of the order, shall commit such person to undergo the detention or imprisonment prescribed in substitution for the fine

(ammenda or multa), or in substitution of the balance of the fine (ammenda or still unpaid, as the case may be. The arrest multa) shall take place upon a warrant to be issued by the court.

(2) The aforesaid warrant shall be issued within four days from the date of any breach of the conditions laid down by the court in its order or from the date of the expiration of the period prescribed for payment under article 14:

Provided that no plea in favour of the person sentenced shall be admissible by reason of the fact that the issue of such warrant was, for any reason whatsoever, delayed beyond the said period of four days.

(3) The court may, on the application of the Police and on reasonable cause being shown, upon hearing the person sentenced, determine the period prescribed under article 14 at any time during the course of such period and commit the person sentenced to undergo the punishment prescribed in substitution for the fine (ammenda or multa).

(4) A person sentenced may at any time obtain his release from the substituted punishment by paying the fine (ammenda or multa) with the deduction of such amount thereof as corresponds to the portion of the punishment undergone at the rates laid down in articles 11 and 13 respectively, and also at similar rates may obtain his release from any unexpired period of detention or imprisonment awarded to him under the provisions of sub-article (1).