Section 434: Fines may be ordered to be recoverable by distress

Where, under the authority of a law, the court imposes a fine or a pecuniary penalty whether or not that fine or penalty is accompanied by a power to impose imprisonment, and no special provision other than recovery by distress is made for the recovery of the fine or penalty, the court may:(a) order the fine or penalty to be recoverable by distress; and
(b) in default of the distress satisfying the amount of the fine or penalty, order that the convict be imprisoned, in accordance with the scale set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.