(1) A public officer who is under a duty by reason of his or her employment, to pay or account for any monies or valuable security or to produce or deliver up any documents or other things, or who fails to do so in compliance with a demand to do so in accordance with his or her duty made to him or her by any other officer or person authorised in that behalf is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for 3 months, and his or her conviction is without prejudice to his or her liability in any civil proceedings or for any other offence punishable under this Code.
(2) A public officer sentenced to imprisonment under subsection (1) shall be discharged upon his or her satisfying the Court before which he or she was sentenced, or any other Court of similar jurisdiction that he or she has since his or her conviction performed the duty in respect of which he or she was sentenced to imprisonment.