Act 9 Penal Code Act 2008 17. Fine Discharged by Death or Service of Sentence in Default of Payment. Where a fine or any part thereof remains unpaid, the offender or his or her estate, if he or she is dead, is discharged from liability to pay the fine or the unpaid part thereof, notwithstanding that he or she has served a term of imprisonment upon default of payment of the fine. 18. Limit on Sentence when act Falls within Definition of more than one Offence, or when an Offence made up of Several acts. When the same act falls within the definition of more than one offence, or when an offence consists of a series of acts, any one or more of which constitutes the same or some other offences, the offender shall not, unless it is otherwise expressly provided for be sentenced to a longer term than the Court which tries him or her could have awarded for any one of such offences. Illustrations— (a) “A” gives “Z” fifty strokes with a stick. Here “A” can be punished for one beating only although each blow may by itself constitute an offence; (b) But if, while “A” is beating “Z”, “Y” interferes and “A” intentionally strikes “Y”, here, as the blow given to “Y” is no part of the act whereby “A” voluntarily causes hurt to “Z”, “A” is liable to one punishment for voluntarily causing hurt to “Z” and to another for the blow given to “Y”. 19. Sentencing of a Person Convicted of one of Several Offences. In all cases in which the judgment specifies that a person has committed one of several offences, but it is unclear which of these offences he or she has been convicted of, the offender shall be sentenced for the offence for which the lowest sentence is provided. 31