Singapore legislation
Clause 38
Clause 38
Amendment of section 135
Section 135 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) A relevant authorised officer may compound any offence under this Act or the rules 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.(1A) On payment of the composition sum under subsection (1), no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.(1B) In this section, “relevant authorised officer” means any of the following:
the Deputy Commissioner of Police designated by the Commissioner of Police for the purposes of this section; (b)a police officer not below the rank of sergeant specially authorised by name for the purposes of this section by the Deputy Commissioner of Police mentioned in paragraph (a);
the Registrar of Vehicles appointed under section 9(1);
an employee of the Authority specially authorised by name for the purposes of this section in an instrument personally executed by the Registrar of Vehicles mentioned in paragraph (c).”.