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If a prisoner, who is sentenced to a fine and in default to imprisonment for a certain number of months, pays any part of his fine, the remission for the payment shall be calculated in calendar months and not in days. Any fraction of a month obtained by such calculation shall be reduced to days. A fraction of a day less than one-half shall not be counted, any greater fraction shall count as one day. Illustration 1.- If a prisoner is sentenced on the 15th July to six months imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs. 300, or in default of payment to six months further imprisonment and he pays Rs. 63, the calculation shall be made as follows: Rs. 63/300x6 months=63/50=1+13/50 months. The date of release, deducting one month, would fall on the 14th June. As the month preceding June has 31 days, the 13/50x31=403/50=8+3/50 days. Here the remission for payment of Rs. 63 is one month and eight days. Illustration 2.- If the prisoner has been sentenced on 15th June instead of 15th July, the calculation of the 13/50 of a month would have to be made on a 30 days month, because the duration from any date in April to the same date in May is 30 days, as follows: - 13/50x30=39/5=7+4/5 days so that in that case the remission would be also 1 month and 08 days (4/5 of a day being more than half a day). Procedure when a prisoner with imprisonment in lieu of fine is transferred.