Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
31. Power to compound
offences. -
1.
Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, any offence
punishable under this Act for any contravention, not being an offence
punishable with imprisonment only, or with imprisonment and also with fine,
may, on receipt of an application from the person committing such contravention
either before or after the institution of any proceeding, be compounded by an
officer of the Reserve Bank duly authorised by it in this behalf.
2.
Where
a contravention has been compounded under sub-section (1), no proceeding or
further proceeding, as the case may be, shall be initiated or continued, as the
case may be, against the person committing such contravention under that
section, in respect of the contravention so compounded.