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SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 51 Amount in default reduced by imprisonment

SENTENCING ACT 1997 - SECT 51

Amount in default reduced by imprisonment

(1)  If an offender is committed to prison pursuant to a warrant of commitment issued under this Part, the amount in respect of which the warrant was issued is reduced by one prescribed unit for each day served in prison pursuant to the warrant.
(2)  If the offender at any time pays to the DCS the amount then outstanding under the warrant, together with the costs of issuing and executing the warrant, the sentence of imprisonment is wholly extinguished.
(3)  If the offender at any time pays to the DCS a part of the amount then outstanding under the warrant, the balance of the term of imprisonment remaining to be served is reduced by the proportion that the amount so paid bears to that outstanding amount, ignoring any fraction or part of a day.
(4)  The DCS must issue a receipt for the payment of a sum of money made under this section and forward the sum to the Director, MPES.
(4A)  Where an offender is received into prison under a warrant of commitment issued under this Part, the DCS must notify the Director, MPES of that fact within 5 days of that receipt into prison.
(5)  When an offender has served a term of imprisonment fixed under this Part, the whole of the amount in respect of which the warrant of commitment was issued is extinguished.
(6)  Nothing in this section affects a term of imprisonment other than that imposed in respect of the matter in connection with which the total or partial payment is made.