Section 256
Allowing time to pay fine and suspending execution of imprisonment
(1)
When an offender has been sentenced to pay a fine, and the fine is not paid forthwith, the Court may make all or any of the following orders -
(a)
direct that time be allowed for the payment of the fine;
(b)
direct payment to be made of the fine by instalments;
(c)
where the offender has been sentenced to imprisonment in default of payment of the fine under section 253, suspend the execution of the sentence of imprisonment and release the offender;
(d)
direct that any order made under this subsection shall be conditional on the offender executing a bond with or without sureties for his appearance before the Court on the date or dates on or before which payment of the fine or the instalments thereof, as the case may be, is to be made.
(2)
When a fine is directed to be paid by instalments and default is made in the payment of any instalment, the same proceedings may be taken as if default had been made in the payment of all the instalments then remaining unpaid, and in such event, or where time has been allowed for the payment of the fine and the fine has not been paid within such time, the
Court may, if no such order has previously been made, make both or either of the orders specified in section 253.
(3)
The provisions of this section shall be applicable also in any case in which an order for the payment of money has been made on non-recovery of which imprisonment may be awarded and the money is not paid forthwith, and if the person against whom the order has been made, on being required to enter into a bond such as is referred to in subsection (l)(d), fails to do so, the Court may at once pass sentence of imprisonment.
Criminal Procedure Code
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