21Cost of removing litter

1. Where a court convicts a person of an offence against section 15 or section 16, it may, if it thinks fit, in addition to imposing a penalty, order the offender to pay by way of compensation to the public authority having the control or management of the public place or, as the case may be, the occupier of the private land where the offence was committed such sum as it considers reasonable to cover the cost of the removal of the litter; and the amount so awarded shall be deemed to be a judgment debt due to the authority or occupier from the offender and may be enforced in any manner in which a judgment or order of the court for the payment of a civil debt may be enforced.