The Clearing House may make an offer of composition to a Clearing Member if an investigation or inspection shows that the Clearing Member may have breached any Rules. The terms of the offer of composition include payment of a specified sum to the Clearing House and may include the fulfillment of any accompanying terms that the Clearing House may prescribe.

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Upon payment of the specified sum and fulfillment of the accompanying terms by the Clearing Member within the stipulated time, no further proceedings shall be taken against that Clearing Member for that Rule violation.

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Acceptance of the offer of composition by the Clearing Member amounts to an admission of liability and the Member will be deemed to have committed the conduct described in the charge.

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In respect of Rule violations which the Clearing House may offer composition, guidelines on the range of composition which the Clearing House may offer to a Clearing Member who has committed a Rule violation are indicated in Schedule A.

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The Clearing House retains the discretion to offer composition to a Clearing Member of an amount which does not fall within these guidelines, except that the amount of composition that the Clearing House may offer to a Clearing Member shall not exceed S$10,000 for each Rule violation.

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Notwithstanding that a Rule violation is indicated as being compoundable or may be compoundable under Schedule A, the Clearing House retains the discretion not to make an offer of composition to the Clearing Member but instead, to charge the Clearing Member before the Disciplinary Committee.

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If the Clearing House has made an offer of composition, it will not commence disciplinary proceedings against a Clearing Member until after the stipulated period for the offer lapses.

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For the purposes of determining whether a Rule violation is classified as a first, second, third or subsequent offence under Schedule A, only previous violations under the same Rule will be taken into consideration.

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