(1) Every person who is required to
pay a fine in accordance with the records established pursuant to
Section 151 shall pay the fine immediately.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
if such person is not able to immediately pay the amount of fine but
furnishes a property as the guarantee for the payment of such
amount, the court may order that the amount of fine be paid up
within one year in a maximum of three installments.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2),
if the person so sentenced to fine has furnished any bail/bond or
guarantee pursuant to Chapter 7 or Section 137, the court shall order
that the amount of fine be recovered from such bail/bond or
guarantee and only the remaining amount be paid in installments.
(4) Except in cases where the provision of payment of the
amount of fine in installments is made pursuant to sub-section (2) or
the service of sentence has already been made by remaining in
detention or custody in the course of the proceedings of the case or
the amount of fine is recoverable from the bail/bond or guarantee
furnished pursuant to Chapter 7 or Section 137, the court shall order
the concerned prison to imprison the offender in lieu of the fine if he
or she fails to pay the amount of fine immediately.
(5) If an order is made pursuant to sub-section (4) and the
offender who fails to pay the amount of fine pays some amount of
fine or if the offender has remained in custody or detention in the
course of the proceedings of the case and there is a situation that the
period of such custody or detention undergone by him or her is to be
set off against the period of imprisonment, the period of
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imprisonment in the default of payment of the amount of fine shall
be set by setting off the said period of imprisonment undergone, and
the offender shall be imprisoned only for the remaining period in
proportion to the period so set and the total amount of the fine.