Malaysian Palm Oil Board Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Jan 2006 · Part VII · General
71. Compounding of offences
Feedback & supportThe Director General may compound any offence committed by any person under this Act and prescribed to be a compoundable offence by regulations made under this Act by making a written offer to such person to compound the offence upon payment to the
Director General
“Director General” means the Director General of the Board appointed under section 19;
Director General of such amount not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount of 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, and where the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer or within such extended period as the Director General may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time thereafter against the person to whom the offer was made.
Where an offence has been compounded under subsection
, no prosecution shall thereafter be instituted in respect of such offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made and any oil palm product or the proceeds of sale thereof, or any conveyance, machinery, contrivance, equipment, book, record, document or other article seized in connection with the offence may be released or forfeited by the Director General, subject to such terms and conditions as the Director General thinks fit.
oil palm product
“oil palm product” means any product obtained directly from the oil palm or wholly or partly manufactured or derived from such product and includes palm oil, palm kernel, palm kernel cake, oil palm shell, palm fatty acids, oil palm planting material, oil palm fruit, oil palm fibre, oil palm empty fruit bunches, oil palm fronds, oil palm trunks, oil palm roots, oil palm based fibreboards, oil palm based pulp and paper and oil palm based chemicals;
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palm oil
“palm oil” means oil, whether in crude or processed form,originating or extracted from the pericarp of the oil palm fruit, and includes oil, whether in crude or processed form originating or extracted from the kernel of the oil palm fruit;