Civil Defence Act 1986 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Trial and Punishment by Disciplinary Officers
85A. Composition of service offences
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Subject to subsection (2), any member or public officer authorised by the Commissioner to compound service offences (called in this section an authorised composition officer), may compound any service offence that is prescribed as a compoundable offence (called in this section a prescribed offence) by collecting from an accused (not being a public officer) reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:
member
“member” means an officer or a serviceman of the Force, and includes a volunteer ex‑NSman or an auxiliary member;
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is authorised to be imposed by a disciplinary officer on the accused for the offence under this Part;
$5,000.
An authorised composition officer must not compound a prescribed offence reasonably suspected to have been committed by an accused who is in the same chain of command as the authorised composition officer.
On payment of the sum of money under subsection (1), no further proceedings are to be taken against the accused in respect of the prescribed offence.
offence
“offence” means an offence punishable under any written law or a service offence;
All sums collected for the composition of a service offence under this Act must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
service offence
“service offence” means an offence punishable under any of the provisions of Part 5;