Section 54
Compounding of offences
of Agriculture Fertilizer Enactment 2025
The Director may compound any offence committed by any person under this Enactment which prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to person to compound the offence upon payment to the Director of such amount not exceeding fifty percent of the amount of maximum fine for that offence within the period specified in the offer.
(2)
An offer under subsection (1) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed, but before any prosecution for it has been instituted.
(3)
If the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the period specified in the offer or within such extended period as the Director may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.
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(4)
If an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall after that be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made and any fertilizer, fertilizer supplement, raw materials to make fertilizer or the proceeds of its sale, or any machinery, contrivance, equipment, device, appliance, material, receptacle, package, conveyance, book, record, document, computerized data or other things seized in connection with the offence may be released or forfeited by the Director in accordance with the terms and conditions of the compound.