Environmental Quality Act 1974 · s 45

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s 45Compounding of offences

(1)

The Director General or any Deputy Director General, or any public officer, any Government Department, any local authority or any corporation to whom the Director General has delegated such power in writing, may, with the written consent of the Public Prosecutor,

compound any offence under this Act or the regulations made thereunder prescribed by the Minister as an offence which may be compounded by accepting from the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence, a sum of money not exceeding fifty per centum 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 his written offer.

(2)

The Minister may make rules to prescribe the method and procedure for compounding such offences.