CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE ACT (b) any community service which the offender is permitted to render as an alternative to the payment of the fine shall be reduced to such extent as the court may determine in order to take into account the amount so paid or recovered. (2) Where an offender renders only part of any community service he is permitted in terms of section three hundred and forty-seven to render as an alternative to a fine, the court may reduce any period of imprisonment which it has imposed as an additional alternative to the fine, to such extent as the court may determine in order to take into account the service the offender has rendered. (3) A determination in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) or subsection (2) shall be made in the presence of the offender concerned, and subsections (5) and (6) of section three hundred and fifty-eight shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in regard to bringing the offender before the court for that purpose. (4) No amount shall be accepted in part payment of a fine if it would have the effect of reducing the imprisonment to be served in terms of subsection (1) by a fractional part of a day. [Section inserted by s. 18 of Act No. 8 of 1997] 349 Court may enforce payment of fine from moneys on accused or salary or wages of accused Where a person is sentenced to pay a fine, whether with or without an alternative sentence of imprisonment, the court may, without prejudice to any other power under this Act relating to the payment of a fine, enforce payment of the fine, whether as to the whole or part thereof— (a) by seizure of moneys upon the person concerned; or (b) if money is due or is to become due as salary or wages from any employer of the person concerned, by— (i) from time to time ordering the employer to deduct a specified amount from the salary or wages so due and to pay over such amount to the clerk of the court in question; or (ii) ordering the employer to deduct from time to time a specified amount from the salary or wages from the employer due and to pay over such amount to the clerk of the court in question. 350 Levy of fine and costs on conviction of defamation When any person is convicted of the unlawful publication of any defamatory matter which was published by means of printing, the prosecutor may levy the fine, if any, and costs out of any property of the offender in like manner as in civil actions. 350A Community service orders (1) Subject to this section and to regulations made in terms of section three hundred and eighty-nine, a court which convicts a person of any offence may, instead of sentencing him to imprisonment or a fine, make a community service order requiring him to render service for the benefit of the community or any section of the community for such number of hours as shall be specified in the order. (2) Where a court makes community service orders in respect of two or more offences of which the offender has been convicted, the court may direct that all or any of the hours of service specified in any of the orders shall be concurrent with those specified in any other order, and in the absence of such a direction the hours shall run concurrently. (3) A court which makes a community service order in respect of an offender may sentence the offender to a fine and additionally, or alternatively, to imprisonment as an alternative punishment, to be paid or served, as the case may be, if he fails to render the service specified in the order. (4) A court may make a community service order in respect of an offender even if he has been convicted of an offence under an enactment which makes provision only for a fine and additionally, or alternatively, imprisonment as punishment for the offence: 130