(1) When any person is convicted of felling, cutting, removing, girdling, marking, lopping, tapping, or bleeding trees or timber, or of injuring them by fire or otherwise, in contravention of this Act, the convicting magistrate may, in addition to any other punishment which he or she may award, order that person to pay to the Government such compensation, not exceeding as assessed by the Forestry Division at current market value for each tree or log of timber with respect to which the offence was committed, as he or she deems just. (Amended by Act 11 of 1983)