Singapore legislation

Clause 78

of Land Transport (Enforcement Measures) Bill

Clause 78

Repeal and re-enactment of section 52

Section 52 of the Street Works Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Composition of offences52.—

(1)

The Authority may compound any offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder that is prescribed as being an offence which may be compounded by doing one or both of the following:

(a)

by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:

(i)

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

(ii)

$5,000;

(b)

by requiring the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence to do, or to refrain from doing, such things as are specified in an offer of composition (called conditions of composition) by the Authority, with the concurrence (general or specific) of the Public Prosecutor.(2) On payment of such sum of money and on full compliance with the conditions of composition, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.(3) All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.”.

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