s 284 Fines and compensation orders: maximum amounts
(1) The Service Civilian Court may not in respect of any one offence impose a fine exceeding the prescribed sum. (2) Where the Service Civilian Court convicts a person of an offence under section 42 (criminal conduct), it may not impose a fine which a magistrates' court in England or Wales could not impose on him for the corresponding offence under the law of England and Wales. (2A) The following subsections apply if (but only if) the Service Civilian Court has convicted a person aged under 18 (“the offender”) of an offence or offences. (3) The compensation to be paid under a service compensation order made by the Service Civilian Court in respect of the offence, or any one of the offences, must not exceed the amount for the time being mentioned in section 139(2) of the Sentencing Code (limit on compensation order made by magistrates' court). (4) The compensation or total compensation to be paid under a service compensation order or service compensation orders made by the Service Civilian Court in respect of any offence or offences taken into consideration in determining sentence must not exceed the difference (if any) between— (a) the amount or total amount which under subsection (3) is the maximum for the offence or offences of which the offender has been convicted; and (b) the amount or total amounts (if any) which are in fact ordered to be paid in respect of that offence or those offences.