Section 13: Compensation order

(1)
A court by or before which a person is convicted of an offence may, in addition to dealing with such person in any other way, make an order (in this Act referred to as "compensation order") requiring the person to pay compensation for any personal injury, loss or damage resulting from that offence of such amount as it may deem fit or as assessed by a competent professional authority .
(2)
In determining whether to make a compensation order against any person, and in determining the amount to be paid by any person under such an order, the Court shall have regard to the means of the respondent in so far as they appear or are known to the Court.