Imprisonment in default of payment of penalty

Where by any statute the court is empowered to impose a penalty for a summary conviction offence, it may, in the absence of express provision to the contrary in the same or any other statute, order a defendant who is convicted of the offence, in default of payment of the sum of money adjudged to be paid by the order, either forthwith, or at the times specified in the order, as the case may be, to be imprisoned in accordance with the scale set forth in section 55 of this Act. 34