Section 63
Compounding of offences
The Chief Executive Officer may compound any offence committed by any person under this Enactment which prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to such person to compound the offence on payment to the Commission of an amount not exceeding fifty per cent of the amount of the maximum fine for that offence within the time specified in the offer.
(2)
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.
(3)
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 Commission may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.
(4)
Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (2), no prosecution shall after that be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any article, thing, book, document, pipeline, piping system or part thereof seized in connection with the offence may be released or forfeited by the Chief Executive Officer, subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit.
(5)
All sums of money accepted under this section shall be paid into the State Consolidated
Fund.