Clause 18

The Board may compound any offence under this Act or the regulations that 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:

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

$5,000.(2) On payment of such sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.(3) All sums collected under this section are to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.Recovery of financial penalties, etc.27A.—

Any person who fails to pay a financial penalty by the date the person is required to do so under this Act is liable to pay, after that date, interest on the amount unpaid at the same rate as for a judgment debt.(2) Any financial penalty and any interest on the financial penalty payable by any person under this Act must be paid to the Board and is recoverable by the Board as a debt due to the Board from that person; and the person’s liability to pay is not affected by the person’s licence ceasing, for any reason, to be in force.(3) The Board may, in any case it thinks fit, waive, remit or refund, wholly or in part, any financial penalty or any interest on the financial penalty payable under this Act.(4) All financial penalties and interest on the financial penalties collected by the Board under this Act are to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.”.