Section 79:
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
79. Where penalty is imprisonment or penal servitude
Where the penalty awarded against a person convicted is imprisonment
with or without hard labour or penal servitude, the Magistrate may issue a
warrant of commitment in Form J of the Second Schedule directing the officer to whom it is addressed to take such person and convey him to the
prison therein named, and directing the keeper of such prison to receive such
person and to imprison him, with or without hard labour, or to put him to
penal servitude, as the case may be, for such time as has been awarded and
mentioned in the warrant.
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- If I'm sentenced to imprisonment, does the warrant of commitment tell the prison how long to hold me?