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Primary Courts' Procedure Act (No. 44 of 1979) - Sect 23

Fine may be paid in instalments

23.
(1) Where a person has been sentenced to a fine only and to imprisonment in default of payment of the fine a Primary Court may do all or any of the following things :-
(a) allow time for the payment of the fine;
(b) direct payment of the fine to be made by instalments ;
(c) direct that the person liable to pay the fine shall be at liberty to give to the satisfaction of the court a bond, with or without a surety or sureties, for the payment of the fine or any instalment thereof.
(2) Where a fine is directed to be paid by instalments and default is made in the payment of any one instalment the same proceedings may be taken as if default had been made in the payment of all the instalments then remaining unpaid.

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