Section 31
Bases To Be Taken While Determining The Amount Of Compensation
While determining the amount of compensation to be provided to the victim, the court may take any or all of the following matters as the basis:
(a) Reasonable expenses borne or to be borne by the victim for medical, psychological or psychiatric counseling,
(b) Expenses of medical treatment borne or to be borne by the victim,
(c) Unexpected travel expenses borne by the victim,
Explanation: For the purpose of this clause, “unexpected travel expenses” means the reasonable expenses incurred in transport while traveling more than ten kilometers for receiving counselling or treatment service which the victim requires immediately to lessen the damage caused to the victim as a direct result of the offence because such service is not available within the distance of ten kilometers from the victim’s place of settlement or workplace or the scene of crime.
(d) Expenses for legal practitioner borne by the victim,
(e) Damage caused to the personal capacity of the victim as a direct result of the offence,
(f) Financial loss borne or to be borne by the victim,
Provided that where the victim has obtained or is obtain compensation for such financial loss from the insurance pursuant to law, compensation shall not be provided pursuant to this clause.
(g) Expenses incurred or to be incurred in repairing or maintaining the damaged personal goods or purchasing new ones,
(h) The victim’s income generation capacity lost or damaged as a direct result of the offence,
(i) Negative effect caused to the physical beauty of the victim,
(j) Damage caused to physical, intellectual, sexual or reproductive capacity of the victim,
(k) In the case of the offence of rape, negative effect caused from such offence to the social, cultural or family prestige or relationship of the victim,
(l) Where the victim becomes pregnant due to rape, expenses incurable in abortion or giving birth to and nurturing the baby,
(m) Medical treatment expenses in the case of abortion caused from the offence,
(n) Reasonable expenses spent by the victim in good faith to become safe from additional offence that is likely to be committed against him or her, where the special condition is attracted,
Explanation: For the purposes of this Section “special condition” means the condition where the victim has sustained or has to sustain unnatural impact or effect as a direct result of the offence committed against the victim, by taking undue advantage of the physical or mental condition of, or the place of residence, workplace of, the victim or special location of the scene of crime at the time of the commission of the offence.
(o) Mental or emotional damage borne by the victim,
(p) Other appropriate grounds according to the nature and effect of the damage,
(q) In the case of the victim whom special condition is applicable to, reasonable expenses incurred by the victim in good faith to save the victim of first grade from additional offence,
(r) Guardian’s patronage lost by the minor children.
(a) Reasonable expenses borne or to be borne by the victim for medical, psychological or psychiatric counseling,
(b) Expenses of medical treatment borne or to be borne by the victim,
(c) Unexpected travel expenses borne by the victim,
Explanation: For the purpose of this clause, “unexpected travel expenses” means the reasonable expenses incurred in transport while traveling more than ten kilometers for receiving counselling or treatment service which the victim requires immediately to lessen the damage caused to the victim as a direct result of the offence because such service is not available within the distance of ten kilometers from the victim’s place of settlement or workplace or the scene of crime.
(d) Expenses for legal practitioner borne by the victim,
(e) Damage caused to the personal capacity of the victim as a direct result of the offence,
(f) Financial loss borne or to be borne by the victim,
Provided that where the victim has obtained or is obtain compensation for such financial loss from the insurance pursuant to law, compensation shall not be provided pursuant to this clause.
(g) Expenses incurred or to be incurred in repairing or maintaining the damaged personal goods or purchasing new ones,
(h) The victim’s income generation capacity lost or damaged as a direct result of the offence,
(i) Negative effect caused to the physical beauty of the victim,
(j) Damage caused to physical, intellectual, sexual or reproductive capacity of the victim,
(k) In the case of the offence of rape, negative effect caused from such offence to the social, cultural or family prestige or relationship of the victim,
(l) Where the victim becomes pregnant due to rape, expenses incurable in abortion or giving birth to and nurturing the baby,
(m) Medical treatment expenses in the case of abortion caused from the offence,
(n) Reasonable expenses spent by the victim in good faith to become safe from additional offence that is likely to be committed against him or her, where the special condition is attracted,
Explanation: For the purposes of this Section “special condition” means the condition where the victim has sustained or has to sustain unnatural impact or effect as a direct result of the offence committed against the victim, by taking undue advantage of the physical or mental condition of, or the place of residence, workplace of, the victim or special location of the scene of crime at the time of the commission of the offence.
(o) Mental or emotional damage borne by the victim,
(p) Other appropriate grounds according to the nature and effect of the damage,
(q) In the case of the victim whom special condition is applicable to, reasonable expenses incurred by the victim in good faith to save the victim of first grade from additional offence,
(r) Guardian’s patronage lost by the minor children.