Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPayment of compensation upon conviction
| 16. Whenever any person is convicted of any offence or where a Primary Court holds the charge proved but proceeds to deal with the offender without convicting him, the court may order the offender to pay within such time or in such instalments as the court may direct, such sum by way of compensation not exceeding two hundred rupees to any person affected by the offence as to the court shall seem fit. Any sum awarded under this section and section 15, shall be recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by the court: Provided that if the offender is under the age of sixteen years, the court may if it thinks fit order the payment under this section to be made by the parent or guardian of such offender. |