Singapore legislation
Section 233
Section 233
Procedure if punishment cannot be inflicted under section 232
(1)
In any case in which under section 232 a sentence of caning is wholly or partially prevented from being executed, the offender shall be kept in custody till the court which passed the sentence can revise it, and that court may at its discretion either remit the sentence, or sentence the offender instead of caning, or instead of so much of the sentence of caning as was not executed, to imprisonment for any term which may extend to 12 months, which may be in addition to any other punishment to which he has been sentenced for the same offence.
(2)
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise any court to inflict imprisonment for a term exceeding that to which the accused is liable by law or which that court is competent to inflict. [232