Postal Services Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Enforcement Powers and Procedures
51. Composition of offences
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An officer or employee of the Postal Authority specially authorised by name in that behalf by the Postal Authority may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:
$5,000;
one half the maximum fine prescribed for that offence.
On payment of the sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
The Postal Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations prescribing the offences that may be compounded.