Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3B · Offences
34. Composition of offences
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The chief executive or any officer of the Commission authorised by the chief executive may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:
chief executive
“chief executive” means the chief executive of the Commission and includes any person acting in that capacity;
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for that offence;
$5,000.
On payment of the sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
The members, officers and employees of the Commission are, in relation to their administration, assessment, collection and enforcement of payment of composition sums under this section, deemed to be public officers for the purposes of the Financial Procedure Act 1966, and section 20 of that Act applies to these persons even though they are not or were not in the employment of the Government.[12V
Commission
“Commission” means the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore established by section 3 of the Competition Act 2004;