CHAPTER 4
PUNISHSHMENT AND COMPENSATION.
Section 64 -
“Punishments”: The punishments to which offenders are liable under the
provisions of this Code are:(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
death;
forfeiture of property;
imprisonment;
detention in a reformatory;
fine;
whipping.
Section 65 -
Juveniles, Aged Persons, Pregnant or Suckling Women”: The Court
shall not pass:(a) a sentence of imprisonment on any person who in the opinion of the
Court is under sixteen years of age;
(b) the death penalty on any person who in the opinion of the Court is
under eighteen years of age;
(c) the death penalty on any person who in the opinion of the Court is
over seventy years of age;
(d) the death penalty on any pregnant or suckling woman.
Section 66 -
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.
Section 67 -
“Special Sentence for Juvenile Offenders”: When an accused person
who has completed his tenth but not completed his eighteenth year of age
is convicted by a High Court of any offence or by the Court of a
Magistrate of the first or second of class of any offence not tried
summarily; the Court may in passing the sentence prescribed by law,
sentence such accused person to be detained in a reformatory school or
other establishment appointed for the purpose by the Chief Justice for a
term which shall not be less than two or more than five years.
Note – See also section 24 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 2003.
Section 68 -
“Amount of Fine”: Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may
extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited but
shall not be excessive.
14