99Preconditions for compensation order

99 Preconditions for compensation order

(1)  The Court may only make a compensation order if it is satisfied by evidence presented to the Court that –

(a) a youth has been found guilty of an offence; and

(b) a person has suffered injury or loss or destruction of, or damage to, offence-affected property as a result of the offence.

(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1) , evidence presented to the Court includes –

(a) evidence given at the hearing of the charge; and

(b) written statements or admissions made for use, and admissible, as evidence on the hearing of the charge; and

(c) depositions taken at committal proceedings relating to the charge; and

(d) written statements or admissions used as evidence in committal proceedings relating to the charge; and

(e) admissions made by or on behalf of any person in connection with the proposed making of the compensation order.