Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 15 · Offences
102. Composition of offences
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Any police officer not below the rank of sergeant authorised by name in that behalf by the Minister, or any employee or officer of the Authority authorised in that behalf by the Chief Executive, may compound any offence under this Act or the regulations made 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:
officer
“officer”, in relation to a corporation, includes —(a)a director or secretary of, or a person employed in an executive capacity by, the corporation;(b)any receiver or manager, or any receiver and manager, of any part of the undertaking of the corporation, appointed under a power contained in any instrument or by the General Division of the High Court or by the creditors;(c)any liquidator of the corporation appointed in a voluntary winding up or by the General Division of the High Court or by the creditors; and(d)any judicial manager of the corporation appointed under Part 7 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018;
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;
$2,000.
Without limiting subsection (1), any appointed officer authorised in that behalf by the Chief Executive may exercise the power under subsection (1) in relation to any offence under the regulations made under section 89C that is prescribed as a compoundable offence.
appointed officer
“appointed officer” means a person authorised or appointed as an appointed officer under section 89A(1);
On payment of such sum of money under subsection (1) or (2), no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations under section 119 prescribing the offences that may be compounded.