Section 25

Section 45 of the principal Act is amended by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(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.”.