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Section 187, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024
Status not yet checkedThe Criminal Procedure Act, 2024, Sierra Leone
(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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