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Part XI · Finance

91. Protection Fund

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

There shall be a fund called the Victims of Crime and Witnesses Assistance and Protection Fund (in this Act referred to as the “Protection Fund”).

(2)

The Protection Fund shall be administered and managed by the Authority.

(3)

There shall be paid into the Protection Fund –

(a)

all such sums of money as may be voted upon from time to time by Parliament for such Protection Fund;

(b)

all such sums of money as may be received by the

Authority to be remitted to the Protection Fund by way of gifts, donations, contributions, bequests or grants from any source within or outside Sri Lanka;

and

(c)

all such sums of money remitted by a court under subsection (1) of section 65.

(4)

There shall be paid out of the Protection Fund all such sums of money as may be determined by the Authority for the payment of -

(a)

compensation to victims of crime for any injury caused to them;

(b)

interim awards of money granted to victims of crime under section 70; and

(c)

compensation to dependent family members, dependent next of kin and any other person dependent on a victim of crime who has died or been physically or mentally incapacitated as a result of being a victim of crime.

(5)

The Director-General shall be the principal accounting officer of the Protection Fund and shall cause proper books of accounts to be kept of the income and expenditure and assets and liabilities of the Protection Fund.

Read on from s 92

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