Section 64

The Director General may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, 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 Board 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.

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If the amount specified in the offer under subsection (1)

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 (1), no prosecution shall thereafter be instituted in respect of such offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made and any pepper or pepper 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 to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.