Section 87

any offence under this Act as an offence which may be compounded; and

the method and procedure for compounding such offence.

Government Procurement 73

The Secretary General to the Treasury may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, at any time before a prosecution is being instituted, compound any offence prescribed as an offence which may be compounded by making a written offer to the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence to compound the offence upon payment to the Treasury of a sum of money not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount of the maximum fine to which the person would have been liable to if he had been convicted of the offence, within such time as may be specified in the written offer.

An offer under subsection (2) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed but before any prosecution for it has been instituted, and where the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or such extended time as the Secretary General to the Treasury may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.

Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (2), no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any record, book, account, document, computerized data or other thing or any matter or thing that is the subject matter of Government procurement being investigated seized in connection with the offence may be forfeited or released by the

Secretary General to the Treasury, subject to such terms as the

Secretary General to the Treasury thinks fit.

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