Act Number: 20

Act Name: The Probation of Offenders Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-05-16

Long Title: An Act to provide for the release of offenders on probation or after due admonition and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 5: Power of court to require released offenders to pay compensation and costs.
    (1) The court directing the release of an offender under section 3 or section 4, may, if it thinks fit, make at the same time a further order directing him to pay—
         (a) such compensation as the court thinks reasonable for loss or injury caused to any person by the commission of the offence; and
         (b) such costs of the proceedings as the court thinks reasonable.
     (2) The amount ordered to be paid under sub-section (1) may be recovered as a fine in accordance with the provisions of sections 386 and 387 of the Code.
     (3) A civil court trying any suit, arising out of the same matter for which the offender is prosecuted, shall take into account any amount paid or recovered as compensation under sub-section (1) in awarding damages.
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