Order of court

(1) Where an offender has been convicted of an offence under this Act, in addition to any other punishment that may be imposed under this Act, the court may, having regard to the nature of the offence and the circumstances surrounding its commission, make an order having any or all of the following effects– (a) prohibiting the offender from doing any act or engaging in any activity that may result in the continuation or repetition of the offence; 39 (b) directing the offender to take such action as the Court considers appropriate to remedy or avoid any harm to the environment that results or may result from the act or omission that constituted the offence; (c) directing the offender to publish, in the manner prescribed, the facts relating to the conviction; (d) directing the offender to notify, at the offender’s own cost and in the manner prescribed, any person aggrieved or affected by the offender’s conduct, of the facts relating to the conviction; (e) directing the offender to post such bond or pay such amount of money into court as will ensure compliance with any order made pursuant to this section; (f) directing the offender to submit to the Department, on application made by it within three years after the date of conviction, such information with respect to the activities of the offender as the Court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances; (g) directing the offender to compensate the Department, in whole or part, for the cost of any remedial or preventive action taken by or caused to be taken on behalf of the Department as a result of the act or omission that constituted the offence; (h) directing the offender to perform community service, subject to such reasonable conditions as may be imposed therein; 40 (i) requiring the offender to comply with such other reasonable conditions as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances for securing the offender’s good conduct and for preventing the offender from repeating the same or committing other offences. (2) Where an offender fails to comply with an order made under sub-section (1)(c) directing the publication of the facts relating to the offence, the Department may publish the facts in compliance with the order and recover the costs of publication from the offender. (3) Where the court makes an order under sub-section (1)(g) directing an offender to pay costs or the Department incurs publication costs under sub-section (2), the costs constitute a debt due to the Government of Belize and may be recovered as such in any court of competent jurisdiction. (4) An order made under sub-section (1) comes into force on the day on which it is made or on such other day as the court may determine and shall not continue in force for more than three years after that day.