Section 18: Commencement and execution of sentence

18. Commencement and execution of sentence.—(1) Whenever any person is sentenced under this Ordinance to 2[imprisonment for life], rigorous imprisonment or detention, the term of sentence shall, whether it has been revised or not, be reckoned to commence on the day on which the original proceedings were signed by the Court. (2) Whenever any sentence of 2[imprisonment for life] or rigorous imprisonment is passed under this Ordinance, or whenever any sentence of death so passed is commuted to 2[imprisonment for life] or to rigorous imprisonment, the Commandant of the corps to which the person under sentence belongs, or such other officer as may be specified by the Inspector General shall forward a warrant in the prescribed form to the officer in charge of the civil prison in which such person is to be confined and shall forward him to such prison with the warrant: Provided that in the case of a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month, the Court, may direct that the sentence shall be carried out in the Frontier Corps custody: Provided further that, on active service, a sentence of rigorous imprisonment may be carried out by confinement in such place as the Commandant of the corps in the field, may, from time to time appoint. (3) Whenever, in the opinion of the Inspector General, any sentence or portion of a sentence of imprisonment cannot, for special reasons, be conveniently carried out in accordance with the aforementioned provision, the Inspector General, may direct that such sentence or portion of sentence shall be carried out by confinement in any civil prison or other fit place.

Effective date: 1959-01-01

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