Compounding of offences.

(1) Any person authorised in this behalf by general or special order by the commission or the District Planning Committee, or the Metropolitan Planning Committee or the Municipal Corporation, the Municipal Council, the Town Panchayat or the Village Panchayat concerned, may either before or after the institution of the proceedings, compound any offence made punishable by or under this Act. (2) When an offence has been compounded, the offender, if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceedings shall be taken against him in respect of the offence compounded.