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notified that such a document has been given to or served on the addressee;
“document” includes a notice or an order permitted or required by this Act or the Regulations to be given;
“last email address” means the last email address given by the addressee concerned to the person giving or serving the document as the email address for the service of documents under this Act or the Regulations;
“residential address” means an individual’s usual or last known place of residence in Singapore.

Composition of offences

37.—(1) The Commissioner may compound any offence under this Act or the Regulations that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a 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 the offence;
(b) $5,000.

(2) On payment of the sum of money, no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.

(3) All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Offences by corporations

38.—(1) Where, in a proceeding for an offence under this Act or the Regulations, it is necessary to prove the state of mind of a corporation in relation to a particular conduct, evidence that—

(a) an officer, employee or agent of the corporation engaged in that conduct within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority; and
(b) the officer, employee or agent had that state of mind,

is evidence that the corporation had that state of mind.