Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 14

14. (1) A person sentenced to a fine ( ammenda or multa ) shall pay the same forthwith. Nevertheless the court may, for a reaso n to be recorded, order that the pers on sentenced shall pay the fine to the registrar within such period as the court in passing senten ce shall direct: Provided that, in the case of a fine ( ammenda) of fifty-eight euro and twenty-three cents (€58.23) or less, the said period s hall not be more than ten days, and, in the case of a fine ( ammenda ) of more than fifty-eight euro and twenty-three cents (€58.23), or in th e case of a fine (multa), the said period shall no t be more than one month: Provided that in default of payment of the fine (multa or ammenda) within the time laid down by the court in its sentence or, failing a time-limit in the sent ence, within the time of one we ek from the date of the sentence, t he said fine shall be converted forthwith into imprisonment or detention as provided in article s 11 and 13 as the case may be, and the police shall, by virtue of t he authority conferred upon them by the sentence and by this provi so, arrest the person sentenced and shall escort him to the place CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 15 designated according to law for the confinement of persons sentenced to a fine convertible into imprisonment or detention according to law: Power of court to fix other period of detention or imprisonment. Provided further that the court may, notwithstanding the provisions of articles 11 and 13, in passing sentence of a fine (ammenda or multa ) determine any other period of detention or imprisonment which the offender shall undergo in default of payment thereof forthwith or wit hin the prescribed time, as the case may be; but the period of detention or imprisonment so determin ed shall in no case exceed the period laid down in articles 11 and 13, respectively. (2) The court may also in its discretion in passing sentence or at any time thereafter direct that any fine ( ammenda or multa ) to which any person is sentenced, may be paid by instalments in su ch amounts and in relation to such recurrent intervals as the cour t may deem fit, but so nevertheless tha t the period over which the wh ole amount shall be paid shall in no case exceed three years, and t hat in default of payment of any one such instalment the whole of the amount outstanding shall become and be immediately due and payable, and all the provisions of this Code applicable to a se ntence of fine ( ammenda ) or of fine ( multa ) and to arrest and detention or imprisonment, as the case may be , in default of payment thereof , shall apply to the same accordingly. Reprimand or admonition. Repealed by: II.1886.4. and re-enacted by: XVI.1888.4.