Singapore legislation
Section 90
Section 90
Composition of offences
(1)
The Registrar, or the Commissioner of Police or any police officer authorised in writing by the Commissioner of Police, may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as an offence which may be compounded by the Registrar, the Commissioner of Police or such police officer by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;
$5,000.
(2)
On payment of the sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
(3)
The Minister may make rules to prescribe the offences which may be compounded under this section and the conditions subject to which, and the manner in which, the offences may be compounded.[34