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IPC Chapter IIISection 57

Section57

Fractions of terms of punishment

In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for twenty years.

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Chapter III

Of Punishments

In this chapter

53Punishments
53AConstruction of reference to transportation
54Commutation of sentence of death
55Commutation of sentence of imprisonment for life

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55A

Definition of “appropriate Government”

56(Repealed) Sentence of Europeans and Americans to penal servitude

57Fractions of terms of punishment

58(Repealed) Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported

59(Repealed) Transportation instead of imprisonment

60Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple

61(Repealed) Sentence of forfeiture of property

62(Repealed) Forfeiture of property in respect of offenders punishable with death, transportation or imprisonment

63Amount of fine

64Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine

65Limit to imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when imprisonment and fine awardable

66Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine

67Imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when offence punishable with fine only

68Imprisonment to terminate on payment of fine

69Termination of imprisonment on payment of proportional part of fine

70Fine leviable within six years, or during imprisonment – Death not to discharge property from liability

71Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences

72Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, the judgment stating that it is doubtful of which

73Solitary confinement

74Limit of solitary confinement

75Enhanced punishment for certain offences under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII after previous conviction