Clause 21

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 139, the following section:“Court may take into account compounded offences for purposes of sentencing139AA. For the purpose of determining the appropriate sentence for an offence committed by a person under this Act, a court may take into account, as an aggravating factor, any offence that has been compounded (whether before, on or after the date of commencement of section 21 of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2019) under this Act before the date of the sentencing.”.