Section 73 - Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine.

Whenever an offender is sentenced to a fine whether with or without imprisonment under this Penal Code, the court which sentences the offender may direct by the sentence that, in default of payment of the fine, the offender shall be committed to prison for a certain term, which term shall be in excess of any other term of imprisonment to which he may have been sentenced or to which he may be liable under a commutation of a sentence.