Section 52

any offence under this Act and any regulations made under the Act that may be compounded;

the criteria for compounding such offence; and

the method and procedure for compounding such offence.

The Director General may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, compound any offence committed by any person under this Act or any regulations made under this

Act, and prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to the person suspected to have committed the offence to compound the offence upon payment to the

Director General of an amount of money not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount of the maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in his written offer.

Act 802

An offer under subsection (2) 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 is not paid within the time specified in the offer or such extended period as the

Director General may allow, 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 this section, 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 by the Director General, subject to such conditions as the Director General thinks fit.

Savings and transitional