STATUTES (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) BILL

Order for Second Reading read.

The Minister for Law (Prof. S. Jayakumar): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

Sir, the various Acts referred to in the first column of the Schedule to the Bill empower statutory bodies named therein to compound offences. The Minister for Finance has decided to allow them to retain all sums collected from the composition of offences under those Acts as operating source of revenue and this Bill seeks to give effect to that decision.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.

The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. - [Prof. S. Jayakumar].

Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.