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Reduction of imprisonment on part payment of sums adjudged to be paid.
42 & 43 Vict. c. 49.
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3.—(1) Where a term of imprisonment is imposed by a court of summary jurisdiction in respect of the non-payment of any sum of money adjudged to be paid by a conviction or order of that or any other court of summary jurisdiction, that term shall, on payment of a part of such sum to any person authorised to receive it, be reduced by a number of days bearing as nearly as possible the same proportion to the total number of days in the term as the sum paid bears to the sum adjudged to be paid:
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Provided that, in reckoning the number of days by which any term of imprisonment would be reduced under this section, the first day of imprisonment shall not be taken into account, and that, in reckoning the sum which will secure the reduction of a term of imprisonment, fractions of a penny shall be omitted.
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(2) Provision may be made by rules under section twenty-nine of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, as to the applications of sums paid under this section and for determining the persons authorised to receive such payments and the conditions under which such payments may be made.
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