Power to impose fines and award compensation in respect of frivolous claims

Where any claim to any salved property or any proceeds thereof, whether made under section 12 or in the course of any proceedings before him, is dismissed or rejected, the Claims Commissioner may if he is of opinion that the claim was false, frivolous or vexatious, impose a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees on the person making it, and may while doing so direct that the whole or a portion or it, if recovered, shall be paid by way of compensation to any person who has opposed the claim.