s 64 Compounding of offences
(1) The Registrar may, with the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor, compound any offence committed by any person under this Act and prescribed to be a compoundable offence by making a written offer to the person suspected to have committed the offence to compound the offence upon payment to the Registrar of an amount of money not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount of maximum fine for that offence within such time as may be specified in his written offer.
(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 if the amount specified in the offer is not paid within the time specified in the offer or such extended time as the Registrar may grant, prosecution for the offence may be instituted at any time after that against the person to whom the offer was made.
(3) Where an offence has been compounded under subsection (1), no prosecution shall be instituted in respect of the offence against the person to whom the offer to compound was made, and any computer, book, account, computerized data or other document, signboard, card, letter, pamphlet, leaflet, notice, equipment, instrument or article seized in connection with the offence may be released or forfeited by the Registrar, subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit to impose in accordance with the conditions of the compound.
(4) All sums of money received by the Registrar under this section shall be paid into the Federal Consolidated Fund.
Malay text (authoritative)
Pengkompaunan kesalahan
(1) Pendaftar boleh, dengan keizinan bertulis Pendakwa Raya, mengkompaun apa-apa kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh mana-mana orang di bawah Akta ini dan yang ditetapkan sebagai kesalahan boleh kompaun dengan membuat suatu tawaran bertulis kepada orang yang disyaki telah melakukan kesalahan itu untuk mengkompaun kesalahan itu apabila dibayar kepada Pendaftar suatu amaun wang yang tidak melebihi lima puluh peratus amaun denda maksimum bagi kesalahan itu dalam masa yang dinyatakan dalam tawaran bertulisnya.
(2) Suatu tawaran di bawah subseksyen (1) boleh dibuat pada bila-bila masa selepas kesalahan itu dilakukan tetapi sebelum apa-apa pendakwaan baginya dimulakan, dan jika amaun yang dinyatakan dalam tawaran itu tidak dibayar dalam masa yang dinyatakan dalam tawaran itu atau apa-apa masa lanjutan yang diberikan oleh Pendaftar, pendakwaan bagi kesalahan itu boleh dimulakan pada bila-bila masa selepas itu terhadap orang yang kepadanya tawaran itu dibuat.
(3) Jika sesuatu kesalahan telah dikompaun di bawah subseksyen (1), tiada pendakwaan boleh dimulakan berkenaan dengan kesalahan itu terhadap orang yang kepadanya tawaran mengkompaun itu dibuat, dan apa-apa komputer, buku, akaun, data berkomputer atau dokumen lain, papan tanda, kad, surat, risalah, lembaran, notis, kelengkapan, peralatan atau barang yang disita berkaitan dengan kesalahan itu boleh dilepaskan atau dilucuthakkan oleh Pendaftar, tertakluk pada apa-apa terma dan syarat yang difikirkannya patut dikenakan mengikut syarat kompaun itu.
(4) Semua jumlah wang yang diterima oleh Pendaftar di bawah seksyen ini hendaklah dibayar ke dalam Kumpulan Wang Disatukan Persekutuan.
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Text as at 1 August 2024 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
