Clause 21

The Immigration Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 57 thereof the following new section: —“Compounding of offences57A. The Controller or any immigration officer authorised by name or by office in that behalf by the Minister by notification in the Gazette may compound such offence under this Act or the regulations made thereunder as may be prescribed as being an offence which may be compounded by collecting from the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum of money not exceeding one hundred dollars.”.