Section 38A

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, and if the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or such extended time as the

Registrar 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 the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any equipment, instrument, material, book, record, account, document or thing seized under this Act and the laws specified in the First Schedule in connection with the offence may be released by the Registrar, subject to such terms and conditions as the Registrar thinks fit to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.

All sums of money received by the Registrar under this section shall be paid into the fund established under section 28.

In relation to the offences that may be compounded under subsection (1), the Minister may prescribe the offences that may be compounded and the procedures for compounding such offences.

Offences by body corporate