Section 47:
Plurality of punishments under section 46.
1[(1)] Any two of the punishments
enumerated in the last foregoing section may be awarded for any such offence in combination,
subject to the following exceptions, namely :
(1) formal warning shall not be combined with any other punishment except loss of privileges
under clause (4) of that section ;
(2) penal diet shall not be combined with change of labour under clause (2) of that section, nor
shall any additional period of penal diet awarded singly be combined with any period of penal diet
awarded in combination with 2[cellular] confinement ;
3[(3) cellular confinement shall not he combined with separate confinement, so as to prolong the
total period of seclusion to which the prisoner shall be liable ;]
(4) whipping shall not be combined with any other form of punishment except cellular
4[and] separate confinement and loss of privileges admissible under the remission system ;
5[(5) no punishment will be combined with any other punishment in contravention of rules made by
the 6[State Government]]
7](2) No punishment shall be awarded for any such offence so as to combine, with the punishment
awarded for any other such offence two of the punishment which may not be awarded in combination for
any such offence.] STATE AMENDMENTS
Assam.
Amendment of Section 47 of Act IX of 1894.--In sub-section (1) of section 47 of the Principal Act, clause (4) shall be omitted.
[Vide Assam Act 12 of 1956, s. 3.] Orissa.
Amendment of section 47 (Act 9 of 1894).--In section 47 of the said Act, in clause (4) of
sub-section (1) for the words "the remission system " the words "the remission or furlough system" shall
be substituted.
[Vide the Orissa Act 29 of 1958, s. 4] Maharashtra. Amendment of section 47 of Act IX of 1894.--In section 47 of the said act, in clause (4) of subsection (1), for the words "the remission system " the words "the remission or furlough system " shall be
substituted.
[Vide Bombay Act XXVII of 1953, s. 4]
Notes:
1. Section 47 re-numbered as sub-section (1) of section 47, by s. 3, ibid.
2. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for "solitary ".
3. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for exception (3).
4. Subs. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 2 and the First Schedule, for "or ".
5. Added by Act 17 of 1925, s. 3.
6. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "G.G. in C. ".
7. Added by Act 17 of 1925, s. 3.