Section 18
Power to compound offences
(1)
The appropriate authority may, by notification in the Gazette, empower any Drainage and Irrigation Engineer by name to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that such person has committed any offence under this Act a sum of
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money not exceeding seventy-five ringgit by way of composition for the offence which such person is suspected of having committed, and all sums so received by a Drainage and Irrigation Engineer shall be credited to the general revenue of Malaysia.
(2)
On payment of such sum of money no further proceedings shall be taken against such person in relation to the offence for which such composition has been accepted.
Right of access 19.
All public officers and all contractors and workmen thereto duly authorized shall have, at all reasonable times, free access to all land for the purpose of constructing drainage works and for the purpose of doing all acts necessary or preliminary thereto, and may for such purposes bring on to such land any surveying, engineering or constructional plant, equipment or stores.
Repeal and saving 20.
The Enactments specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of the said Schedule:
Provided that—
(a)
any appointment made under any of the Enactments hereby repealed shall be deemed to have been made under this
Act;
(b)
any declaration, rate or rule made or imposed under any of the Enactments hereby repealed shall continue in force as if it had been made or imposed under this Act and may be revoked or varied in the same manner as if it had been made or imposed thereunder.
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