Clause 54

Where an authorised officer or public path warden has reasonable grounds for believing that a person has committed an offence under this Act that is prescribed as an offence to which this section applies, the authorised officer or public path warden may, in lieu of applying to a court for a summons, serve upon that person a prescribed notice requiring that person to attend at the court described, at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.

A duplicate of the notice must be prepared by the authorised officer or public path warden and, if so required by a court, produced to the court.

The notice may be served on the person alleged to have committed the offence.

On an accused person appearing before a court pursuant to a notice under subsection (1), the court is to take cognizance of the offence alleged, and is to proceed as though the accused person were produced before it in pursuance of section 153 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68).

If a person, upon whom a notice has been served under subsection (1), fails to appear before a court in person or by counsel as required by that notice, the court may, if satisfied that the notice was duly served, issue a warrant for the arrest of the person unless, in the case of an offence which may be compounded, that person has before that date been permitted to compound the offence.

Upon a person arrested pursuant to a warrant issued under subsection (5) being produced before a court, the court is to —

If cause is not shown under subsection (6)(b), the court may order a person arrested pursuant to a warrant issued under subsection (5) to pay such fine not exceeding $2,000 as it thinks fit or may commit him or her to prison for a term not exceeding 2 months.

An authorised officer or a public path warden may, at any time before the date specified in the notice under subsection (1), cancel the notice.