s 56 Compounding of offences
(1) The Authority may, with the consent of the Public Prosecutor, compound any offence committed by any person against this Act, by making a written offer to such person to compound the offence upon payment to the Authority within such time as may be specified in the offer such sum of money as may be specified in the offer, which shall not exceed fifty per centum of the amount of the maximum fine to which that person would have been liable if he had been convicted of the offence. (2) An offer under subsection (1) may be made at any time after the offence has been committed, but before any prosecution for it has been instituted, and where the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer, or within such extended period as the Authority may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time thereafter against the person to whom the offer was made. (3) Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall thereafter be instituted in respect of such offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made.