Singapore legislation

Clause 15

of Public Entertainments and Meetings (Amendment) Bill

Clause 15

Amendment of section 21

Section 21 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) The Licensing Officer may, in the Licensing Officer’s discretion, compound any offence under this Act which is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:

(a)

one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;

(b)

$5,000.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(4) All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.”.

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