Section 60: Restitution of property stolen or its value.

(1) Where any person is convicted of having stolen or otherwise obtained any property dishonestly by means ofany felony or misdemeanour, the Court convicting him may— a. order that the property or part thereof be restored to the person who appears to it to be the owner thereof, either on payment or without payment by the owner to the person in whose possession such property or a part thereof then is, of any sum named in such order; b. make an assessment as to the value of such property at the time it was so stolen or otherwise obtained as aforesaid and order that the sum so assessed be paid by the person convicted to the person who appears to it to be the owner of the property. (2) This section shall apply to— a. any valuable security which has been bona fide paid or discharged by any person liable to pay or discharge the same; or b. any negotiable instrument or money which shall have been bona fide received by transfer or delivery by any person for a just and valuable consideration without notice, or without any reasonable cause to suspect, that it had been stolen or otherwise dishonestly obtained; or c. any offence against sections 20, 21 and 22 of the Larceny Act, 1916. (3) On the restitution of any stolen property if it appears to the Court by the Evidence that the person convicted has sold the stolen property to any person, and that such person has had no knowledge that the same was stolen, and that any moneys have been taken from the person convicted on his apprehension and not returned to him under section 59, the Court may, on the application of such purchaser, order that out of such moneys a sum not exceeding the amount of the proceeds of such sale be delivered to the said purchaser. PRESERVATION OF TESTIMONY IN CERTAIN CASE Power to take depositions of persons dangerously ill.