Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
41. Composition of
certain offences.-
1.
Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, any offence
punishable under this Act (whether committed by an individual or association or
any officer or employee thereof), not being an offence punishable with
imprisonment only, may, before the institution of any prosecution, be
compounded by such officers or authorities and for such sums as the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this
behalf.
2. Nothing
in sub-section (1) shall apply to an offence committed by an individual or
association or its officer or other employee within a period of three years
from the date on which a similar offence committed by it or him was compounded
under this section.
Explanation.-- For the purposes of this
section, any second or subsequent offence committed after the expiry of a
period of three years from the date on which the offence was previously
compounded, shall be deemed to be a first offence.
1.
2.
3. Every
officer or authority referred to in sub-section (1) shall exercise the powers
to compound an offence, subject to the direction, control and supervision of
the Central Government.
4.
Every
application for the compounding of an offence shall be made to the officer or
authority referred to in sub-section (1) in such form and manner along with
such fee as may be prescribed.
5. Where
any offence is compounded before the institution of any prosecution, no
prosecution shall be instituted in relation to such offence, against the offender
in relation to whom the offence is so compounded.
6.
Every
officer or authority referred to in sub-section (1), while dealing with a
proposal for the compounding of an offence for a default in compliance with any
provision of this Act which requires by an individual or association or its
officer or other employee to obtain permission or file or register with, or
deliver or send to, the Central Government or any prescribed authority any
return, account or other document, may, direct, by order, if he or it thinks
fit to do so, any individual or association or its officer or other employee to
file or register with, such return, account or other document within such time
as may be specified in the order.