Provided that, where there is no legal practitioner available practising before such court, then any other pe rson may appear on behalf of the accused. (2) Should the person summoned fail to appear, either personally or through a legal practitioner, the court may, if satisfied that such summons was duly served, and if further satisfied that the ends of justice will be met, proceed to hear such case and adjudicate thereon as fully and effectually as if such person had appeared. (3) When a person has been convicted of an offence in his absence in terms of subsection (2), the court may direct the collection of any fine imposed, together with the costs of such collection, and further direct that, on failure to pay such fine and costs, the offender be arrested and commi tted to prison to undergo any sentence of imprisonment that may have been imposed as an alternative to such fine, and such direction shall be by warrant in the prescribed form. 358 Powers of courts as to postponement or suspension of sentences (1) In this section— “postponement” means the postponement of the passing of sentence under paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and includes any further postponement granted in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (7); “suspension” means the suspension of the operation of the whole or part of a sentence under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) or of a warrant under paragraph (c) of that subsection, and includes any further such suspension granted in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (7). (2) When a person is convicted by any court of any offence other than an offence specified in the Eighth Schedule, it may— (a) postpone for a period not exceeding five years the passing of sentence and release the offender on such conditions as the court may specify in the order; or (b) pass sentence, but order the operation of the whole or any part of the sentence to be suspended for a period not exceeding five years on such conditions as the court may specify in the order; or (c) pass sentence of a fine or, in default of payment, imprisonment, but suspend the issue of a warrant for committing the offender to prison in default of payment until the expiry of such period, not exceeding twelve months, as the court may fix for payment, in instalments or otherwise, of the amount of the fine, or until default has been made by the offender in payment of the fine or any such instalment, the amounts of any instalments and the dates of payment thereof being fixed by order of the court, and the court may in respect of the suspension of the issue of the warrant impose such conditions as it may think necessary or advisable in the interests of justice; or (d) discharge the offender with a caution or reprimand. (3) Conditions specified in terms of paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) may relate to any one or more of the following matters— (a) good conduct; (b) compensation for damage or pecuniary loss caused by the offence: Provided that no such condition shall require compensation to be paid in respect of damage or loss that is the subject of an award of compensation in terms of Part XIX; (c) the rendering of some specified benefit or service to any person injured or aggrieved by the offence: Provided that no such condition shall be specified unless the person injured or aggrieved by the offence has consented thereto; (d) the rendering of service for the benefit of the community or a section thereof; (e) submission to instruction or treatment; (f) submission to the supervision or control of a probation officer appointed in terms of the Children’s Act [Chapter 5:06] or regulations made under section three hundred and eighty-nine, or submission to the supervision and control of any other suitable person; (g) compulsory attendance or residence at some specified centre for a specified purpose; (h) any other matter which the court considers it necessary or desirable to specify having regard to the interests of the offender or of any other person or of the public generally. (4) If the offender has, during the period of any postponement or suspension ordered under parag raph (a) or (b) of subsection (2), observed all the conditions specified in the order, the sentence shall not be passed or enforced, as the case may be. (5) Subject to section 55 of the Magistrates Court Act [Chapter 7:10] and of subsections (12) and (13), if a magistrate has reason to believe, whether from information on oath or otherwise, that a condition of any postponement or suspension made in terms of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (2) has been contravened or that the offender has failed to pay a fine or any instalment thereof on a date fixed in terms of paragraph (c) of subsection (2), he may, whether before or after the expiration of the period of postponement or suspension, order the offender to be brought— (a) where the postponement or suspension was made by the High Court, before that court; or