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

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