Section 124
Power to compound offences
of Strata Management Ordinance, 2019
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(1)
The Commissioner or any officer authorized by the Commissioner by notification in the Gazette, may compound any offence committed by any person under this Ordinance or its subsidiary legislation and prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to the person who has committed an offence under this Ordinance or its subsidiary legislation to compound the offence upon payment to the Commissioner 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.
(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, and if the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or such extended
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time as the Commissioner may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.
(3)
Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any book, register, document or other record seized under this Ordinance or its subsidiary legislation in connection with the offence may be released by the Commissioner, subject to such terms and conditions as it thinks fit to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.
(4)
All sums of money received under this section by the
Commissioner or any officer authorized by the Commissioner under subsection (1) shall be deposited into the State Consolidated
Fund or the local authority account as may be determined by the
State Financial Secretary.