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Section 187, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

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(1) Where a person committed to a correctional centre fornon- payment has paid or shall pay a sum in part satisfaction of the sum adjudged to be paid, the period of his imprisonment shall be reduced by a number of days bearing as nearly as possible the same proportion to the total number of days for which that person is committed, as the sum so paid bears to the sum for which he is liable. (2) The keeper of a correctional centre in which a person is confined who is desirous of taking advantage of subsection (1) shall, on application being made by that person, at once take him before a Court, and the Court shall certify the amount by which the period of imprisonment originally awarded is reduced by such payment in part in satisfaction and shall make such order as is required in the circumstances. (3) The Rules of Court Committee, shall by statutory instrument make rules for carrying out the provisions of sections 182 to 186 inclusive.

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