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| (1) Whenever a Judge acquits or discharges the accused and declares that the complaint was frivolous or vexatious, it shall be lawful for such Judge to order the complainant to pay State costs in a sum determined by the Judge. He may, in addition, at the same time, order the complainant to pay to the accused or to each of the accused when there are more than one, such compensation as he shall think fit, which sum if paid or recovered shall be taken into account in any subsequent civil suit relating to the same matter. |
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| (2) Whenever any person causes a police officer to arrest another person, if it appears to the Judge who takes cognizance of the case that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest, he may award such compensation to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to the person so arrested for his loss of time and income and expenses in the matter as the Judge thinks fit. If more persons than one are arrested, the Judge may in like manner award to each of them such compensation as he shall think fit. The payment of such compensation shall be no bar to an action for false imprisonment. |
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| (3) Before making any order under this section the Judge shall record and consider any objection which the complainant may urge against the making of the order, and if he makes such order, he shall record his reasons for making the same. |
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| (4) Any sum awarded under this section shall be: recoverable as if it were a fine imposed by the court. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts