Section 43

The Director may compound any offence committed by any person under this Enactment or any regulations 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 per centum of the amount of the maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in the offer.

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.

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.

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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 timber or any conveyance, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document, computerized data or other thing seized under this

Enactment or any regulations 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.