Offences under the Act to be cognisable and compoundable.

Notwithstanding

anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898),—

1. (a) every offence under this Act shall be cognisable; and
2. (b) every such offence, except where it is committed by a person who has been convicted for the same offence previously, may, with the permission of the court, be compounded.