Road Traffic Act 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Miscellaneous Provisions
135. Composition of offences
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Authorised police and vehicle officials may settle certain offences by taking a sum from a suspect. The sum cannot exceed one half of the maximum fine for the offence or $5,000, whichever is lower. Once paid, no further proceedings are taken for that offence. The minister may make rules on which offences can be settled and how.
Summary · Drafted with AI, checked against the official text on 30 Sep 2026.
Last amended by an amending law of 2025. 3 amendments in all.
A relevant authorised officer may compound any offence under this Act or the rules 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:
one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;
$5,000.
On payment of the composition sum under subsection (1), no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.
In this section, “relevant authorised officer” means any of the following:
the Deputy Commissioner of Police designated by the Commissioner of Police for the purposes of this section;
a police officer not below the rank of sergeant specially authorised for the purposes of this section by the Deputy Commissioner of Police mentioned in paragraph (a);
the Registrar of Vehicles appointed under section 9(1);
an employee of the Authority specially authorised by name for the purposes of this section in an instrument personally executed by the Registrar of Vehicles mentioned in paragraph (c).
The appropriate Minister may make rules to prescribe the offences that may be compounded under this section and the conditions subject to which, and the method and procedure by which, the offences may be compounded.
Minister
“Minister” means —(a)except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), the Minister charged with the responsibility for land transport;(b)for the purposes of the whole of Parts 2 and 3 and sections 75(1), 82, 112(1), (3) and (4), 113(1) and (2), 114(1), 116(2), 121(2) and 143(3) and (11), the Minister charged with the responsibility for law and order; and(c)for the purposes of sections 131B(7), 135(2), 140(1) and (2), 142 and 142A(1), the Minister charged with the responsibility for land transport or the Minister charged with the responsibility for law and order, as appropriate;
All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.