Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977)

Chapter 28 : Sentence

289. Court may enforce payment of fine

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Where a person is sentenced to pay a fine, whether with or without an alternative period of imprisonment, the court may in its discretion, without prejudice to any other power under this Act relating to the payment of a fine, enforce payment of the fine, whether as to the whole or any part thereof—

(a)by the seizure of money upon the person concerned;
(b)if money is due or is to become due as salary or wages from any employer of the person concerned—
(i)by from time to time ordering such employer to deduct a specified amount from the salary or wages so due and to pay over such amount to the clerk of the court in question; or
(ii)by ordering such employer to deduct from time to time a specified amount from the salary or wages so due and to pay over such amount to the clerk of the court in question.