Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No court shall try any offence under this Act except upon a report received from the Registrar or upon a complaint by any other person with the sanction in writing of the Registrar, or any other authority to whom such Registrar is subordinate, regarding such offence. (2) On application of the accused and on remittance of the compounding fee as may be prescribed the Registrar shall have the power to compound any offence punishable under the foregoing provisions of this Act and composition shall have the effect of an acquittal of the accused.