Magistrate may assess damage

Any Magistrate trying any offence under this Act may inquire into and assess the value of the damage, if any, done or caused by the offender to the ferry concerned and shall order the amount of such value to be paid by him in addition to any fine imposed upon him under this Act; and the amount so ordered to be paid shall be leviable as if it were a fine, or, when the offence is one under section 11A, by the sale of the vessel, raft or timber causing the damage.