Section 72B
Compounding of offences
of Sabah Water Supply Enactment 2003
The State Water Authority may compound any offence committed by any person under this Enactment or any regulations made under this Enactment which is prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to such person to compound the offence on payment to the State Water Authority of such amount not exceeding fifty per cent of the amount of the maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in the offer.
(2)
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.
(3)
If the amount specified in the offer made under subsection (1) is not paid within the time specified in the offer or within such extended period as the State Water Authority may grant prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.
(4)
Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall after that be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to
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compound was made, and any equipment, device, appliance, material, book, record, account, document or other thing or any receptacle, package or conveyance seized in connection with the offence may be released by the State Water Authority, subject to such terms as the State
Water Authority thinks fit.