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INDIAN KANOON SECTION 30 CrPC - Code of Criminal Procedure - Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine
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- The Court of a Magistrate may award such term of imprisonment in default of payment of fine as is authorised by law;
Provided that the term?- is not in excess of the powers of the Magistrate under section 29;
- shall not, where imprisonment has been awarded as part of the substantive sentence, exceed one-fourth of the term of imprisonment which the Magistrate is competent to inflict as punishment for the offence otherwise than as imprisonment in default of payment of the fine.
- The imprisonment awarded under this section may be in addition to a substantive sentence of imprisonment for the maximum term awardable by the Magistrate under section 29.
Click here to read more from the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc), 1973.
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