Labuan Foundations Act 2010 · Updated to 23 Apr 2025 · Part IX · General Provisions
77. Power to compound
Feedback & supportThe Authority may, with the consent in writing of the Public
Prosecutor, compound any offence committed by any person under this
person
“person” includes a corporation, a partnership, a body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, and a corporation sole;
Act by making a written offer to the person suspected to have
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Malaysia
“Malaysia” means the territories of the Federation of Malaysia, the territorial waters of Malaysia and the sea-bed and subsoil of the territorial waters, and includes any area extending beyond the limits of the territorial waters of Malaysia, and the sea-bed and subsoil of any such area, which has been or may hereafter be designated under the laws of Malaysia and in accordance with international law as an area over which Malaysia has sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting the natural resources, whether living or non living;
Authority of an amount of money not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount of maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in his written 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, and if the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer or such extended time as the Authority 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 document or thing seized in connection with the offence may be released or forfeited by the Authority, subject to such terms and conditions as he deems fit to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.
All sums of money received by the Authority under this section shall be paid into the Federal Consolidated Fund.