Section 56

The Commission may compound any offence committed by any person under this Enactment or its subsidiary legislation 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

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

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, and

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if the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or such extended time 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.

Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (2), no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any equipment, instrument, material, book, record, account, document or thing seized under this

Enactment or its subsidiary legislation in connection with the offence may be released by the Commission, subject to such terms and conditions as it thinks fit to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.

All sums of money received by the Commission under this section shall be paid into the State Consolidated Fund.

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