Section 50

The Director may compound any offence committed by any person under this Enactment or any subsidiary legislation made under this Enactment and prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to such person to compound the offence upon payment to the Director of such amount not exceeding fifty percentum of the amount of the maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in that order.

An offer under subsection (1) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed, but before prosecution for it has been instituted.

If the amount specified in the offer made under subsection (1) is not paid within the time 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.

Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of such offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made and any animal, carcass, substance, document, computerized data or other thing seized under this Enactment or any subsidiary legislation made under this

Enactment in connection with the offence may be released or forfeited by the Director, subject to such terms and conditions as the Director thinks fit to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.

Prosecution