(1) This section
applies if a superior court or a court of summary jurisdiction constituted by
a magistrate —
(a)
fines an offender for an indictable offence, the statutory penalty for which
is or includes imprisonment; or
(b)
fines an offender for an offence and the court is satisfied that —
(i)
the offender is about to leave the State; and
(ii)
the absence of the offender from the State would defeat
or materially prejudice the operation of the
Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994 in respect of
the fine.
(2) If the court does
not also impose a term of imprisonment on the offender, it may order the
offender to be imprisoned until the fine is paid, but in any event for not
longer than a period set by the court.
(3) The period must
not be more than 24 months, but if the statutory penalty for the offence is or
includes imprisonment for a lesser period, the period must not be more than
that lesser period.
(4) The period is
cumulative on any other period or term of imprisonment that the offender is
serving or has to serve unless the court orders otherwise.
(5) The period is not
a term for the purposes of Part 13.
(6) Service of the
period discharges the offender from the liability to pay the fine.
[Section 58 amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]