Right of person imprisoned in default to be released on payment of sum adjudged to be paid

(1) Where a term of imprisonment is imposed by a court in respect of the non-payment of any sum of money adjudged to be paid by an order of a court, that term shall, on payment of a part of such sum to the clerk, be reduced by a number of days bearing as nearly as possible the same proportion to the total number of days in the term as the sum paid bears to the sum default to be re- leased on paid. (2) In reckoning the number of days by which any term of imprisonment ought to be reduced under this section, the first day of imprisonment shall not be taken into account, and that in reckoning the sum which secures the reduction of a term of imprisonment fractions of a cent shall be omitted. (3) Where any person has been committed to prison by the court for non-payment of any sum of money adjudged to be paid by an order, he may pay or cause to be paid to the keeper of the prison the sum mentioned in the warrant of commitment, together with the amount of the costs, charges and expenses, if any, also mentioned therein, and the keeper shall receive those moneys and thereupon discharge him, unless he is in custody for some other matter. (4) Where any person has been committed to prison by the court for non-payment of any sum of money adjudged to be paid by an order, then on payment to the keeper of the prison of any sum in part satisfaction of the sum so adjudged to be paid, the term of imprisonment shall be reduced by a number of days bearing as nearly as possible the same proportion to the total number of days for which the prisoner is sentenced as the sum so paid bears to the sum for which he is so liable. (5) Wherever under subsection (4) a sum has been received in part satisfaction of a sum due from a prisoner in consequence of the conviction of the court, that sum shall be applied, firstly towards the payment in full or in part of any costs or damages or compensation ordered by the conviction of the court to be paid to the prosecutor and, secondly, towards the payment of the fine, if any, imposed on the prisoner. 46 (6) The keeper of any prison who receives any sum under this section in payment in full or in part of any costs or damages or compensation ordered by the conviction of the court to be paid to the prosecutor shall forthwith transmit the sum to the clerk of the court in which the conviction took place, who shall pay it to the person entitled thereto.