s 34 Composition of offences
34.—(1) The chief executive or any officer of the Commission authorised by the chief executive may compound any offence 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:(a) one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for that offence; (b) $5,000.[25/2016; 10/2018] (2) On payment of the sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.[25/2016] (3) All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.[25/2016] (4) The members, officers and employees of the Commission are, in relation to their administration, assessment, collection and enforcement of payment of composition sums under this section, deemed to be public officers for the purposes of the Financial Procedure Act 1966, and section 20 of that Act applies to these persons even though they are not or were not in the employment of the Government.[12V [25/2016; 10/2018]