CHAPTER III OF PUNISHMENTS

Section 64: Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

¹[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 ²[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.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by Act 8 of 1882, s. 2, for “in every case in which an offender is sentenced to a fine”.
2.Ins. by Act 10 of 1886, s. 21 (2).

Now in the BNS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine.

BNS 8(2)

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