Penalties.

(1) Any person who— (a) undertakes or carries out the development of any site or erects any building or makes or extends any excavation or lays out any means of access to a road in contravention of any direction issued under section 6 or without the permission referred to in section 7 or in contravention of any condition subject to which such permission has been granted, or (b) uses any land in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 9, shall be punished with fine which may extend to Rs. 10,000 and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to Rs. 500 for every day during which such offence continues after conviction for the first commission of the offence. (2) Any person who obstructs the entry of a person authorised under section 11 to enter into or upon any building site or land, or molests such person after such entry shall be punished with fine which may extend to Rs. 1,000. (3) If the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed was in charges of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly: Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment provided in this Act, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge, or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence. (4) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (3), where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to, any neglect on the part of, any director or manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section,— (a) "company" means a body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals ; and (b) "director" in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.