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| (1) Subject to the provisions of the Children and Young Persons Ordinance, a sentence of whipping shall be executed at such time and place as the Minister Shall direct. |
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| (2) A sentence of whipping shall not be carried out until after the expiration of ten days from the date of pronouncement thereof, or if an appeal is presented, until the order of the Supreme Court shall have been notified to the accused. |
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| (3) The punishment of whipping shall not be inflicted unless a medical officer certifies that the offender is in a fit state of health to undergo the punishment. If during the execution of a sentence of whipping the medical offer present certifies that the offender is not in a fit state of health to undergo the remainder of the punishment, the whipping shall be finally stopped. |
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| (4) In any case in which a sentence of whipping is wholly or partially prevented from, being carried into execution the offender shall be kept in custody till the court which passed the sentence can revise it; and the said court may at its discretion either order the discharge of such offender or sentence him in lieu of whipping or in lieu of so much of the sentence of whipping as was not carried out to imprisonment for any term not exceeding that which the court is competent to impose, which may be in addition to any other punishment to which he may have been sentenced for the same offence. |
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