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On 21/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 21/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 21/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 02/01/2011.
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Recovery of expenses
8.
—(1)  The court before which any person is convicted of an offence under section 7 may order that person to pay, in addition to any fine which has been imposed for the offence, the value of any timber or other Government property cut down, destroyed or injured upon the land during any period of the unlawful occupation thereof by that person, and the expense of any survey which has become necessary for proving such unlawful occupation, or for ascertaining the extent thereof.
(2)  For the purpose of ascertaining such value and expense, a certificate in writing under the hand of the Collector of Land Revenue shall be held, until the contrary is proved, to be proof that the sum therein set down is the true amount to be recovered from that person in respect of the value and expense.
(3)  Any sum ordered to be paid under this section, whatever may be the amount thereof, may be recovered in the manner provided for the recovery of fines by the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68].