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- (b) the erecting of the structure is in accordance with section 10 of the State Lands Act 1920; and
- (c) the person, or the company or association or body of persons of which the person is a director, manager, partner, secretary or other officer, is authorised by or under the written law for the time being in force relating to planning and use of land to erect the structure.
Additional orders upon conviction
8.—(1) Without limiting section 359 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, the court before which any person is convicted or found guilty of an offence under section 5 in relation to any State land may order that person to pay, in addition to any fine imposed for the offence, to the Authority as agent of the Government—
- (a) the value of any substance removed from the State land;
- (b) the value of any forest products taken from the State land or damaged or destroyed;
- (c) the costs and expenses incurred by the Authority or an authorised officer in connection with—
- (i) prevention, control, abatement or mitigation of any damage to the State land caused by the commission of the offence; or
- (ii) making good any resulting damage to the State land;
- (d) compensation for any loss or damage suffered by the Government by reason of the commission of the offence; or
- (e) the costs and expenses incurred by an electricity licensee, a gas licensee or the Public Utilities Board in complying with an order of court under subsection (4)(a), (b) or (c), as applicable.
(2) Any sum ordered to be paid under subsection (1) may be recovered in the manner provided for the recovery of fines by the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.
