Singapore legislation

Clause 21

of Environmental Public Health (Amendment) Bill

Clause 21

Amendment of section 104

Section 104 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) The Director-General may, in his 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 shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.”.

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