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Part VII · Compensation

29. Victims of Crime and Witnesses Assistance and 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 (hereinafter referred to as the “Protection Fund”).

(2)

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

(3)

There shall be paid into the Protection Fund—

(a)

all such sums as may be voted by the parliament for such Fund;

(b)

all such sums as may be received by the Authority to be remitted to the Protection Fund by way of any gift, donation, contribution, bequest and grant from any local or foreign sources; and

(c)

all such monies remitted by a Court under subsection (1)(a) (ii) of section 28 :

Provided that any money collected by a Court in the form of a fine, shall not be remitted to the

Protection Fund.

(4)

There shall be paid out of the Protection Fund all such sums as may be determined by the Board for the payment of—

(a)

compensation to victims of crime for any physical or mental harm or loss or damage to property;

Assistance to and Protection of Victims of

(b)

compensation to dependent family members, dependent next of kin and any other person dependent on a victim of crime who had 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 accounts to be kept of the income and expenditure and assets and liabilities of such Fund.

(6)

The financial year of the Protection Fund shall be the calendar year.

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