Offenders (Probation and Community Service) Act · 2012 Revised Edition · Part II · Probation Orders and Discharge
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Without prejudice to section 51(1)(d) of the Children and Young
Persons Act (Chapter 219) any court may, on making a probation order or an order of conditional discharge under this Act, if it thinks it expedient for the purpose of the reformation of the offender, allow any person who consents to do so to give security for the good behaviour of the offender.
A court may, on making a probation order, an order of conditional discharge or an order discharging an offender absolutely, without prejudice to its power of awarding costs against him, order the offender to pay compensation to any person as it thinks reasonable; but, in the case of an order made by a Court of a Magistrate, the compensation shall not exceed $1,000.
An order for the payment of compensation may be enforced in like manner as an order for the payment of costs by the offender; and where the court, in addition to making an order for the payment of compensation to any person, orders the offender to pay to that person any costs, the order for the payment of compensation and for the payment of costs may be enforced as if they constitute a single order for the payment of costs.
When a court makes an order under this section, then if —
the offender has not attained the age of 14 years, the order shall be enforced against the parent or guardian of the offender;
the offender has attained the age of 14 years but has not attained the age of 18 years, the order may be enforced either against the parent or guardian of the offender or against the offender, as the court thinks fit.
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