(1) If a prisoner, who is sentenced to a fine and in default to imprisonment for a certain number of Months, pays any part of his fine, the remission for the payment shall be calculated in Calendar months, and not in days.
(2) Any fraction of a month obtained by such calculation shall be reduced to days and a fraction of a day shall not be counted.
Illustration : If a prisoner be sentenced on the 15th July to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.300/- or in default of payment to serve six months further imprisonment, and he pays Rs.63/-, the calculation shall be made as follows :- Rs.63÷300×6 months= 126÷100=1 26∕100 months The date of release, deducting one month, would fall on the 14th June. As the month preceding June has 31st days, the 26/100 of a month will be calculated on 31 days. 26/100 X31=806/100=8 6∕100 days. Here the remission for payment of Rs.63 is one month and eight days.
If the prisoner had been sentenced on the 15th June instead of 15th July the calculation of the 86/100 of a month would have to be made on a 39 days month because from any date in April to the same date in May is 30 days, as follows 26/100X30=78/10= 7 8∕10 days so that in that one case the remission would be only one.