Section 425: Scale of imprisonment for non-payment of money ordered to be paid

Subject, in every case, to the provisions of the law on which the order is founded, the period of imprisonment, which is imposed by the court in respect of the non-payment of a sum of money ordered to be paid by an order shall be such period as in the opinion of the court will satisfy the justice of the case but shall not exceed the maximum fixed in the scale set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.