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| (1) Whenever any person is convicted of any offence or where the court holds the charge to be proved but proceeds to deal with the offender without convicting him, the court may order the person convicted to pay within such time or in such instalments as the court may direct, such sum by way of compensation to any person affected by the offence as to the court shall seem fit. Any sum awarded under this subsection shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by the court: |
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| (2) Whenever a court imposes a fine or passes a sentence of which fine forms a part, the court may order the whole or any part of the fine recovered to be applied----
| | (a) in defraying the expenses properly incurred in the prosecution; or | | |
| | (b) in compensation for the injury caused by the offence committed. | | |
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| (3) At the time of awarding compensation in any subsequent civil suit relating to the same matter, \the court shall take into account any sum paid or recovered as compensation under this section. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts