Compounding of offences

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(1) (a) Any penalty under this Code may be compounded by paying a sum of fifty percent of the maximum penalty before the institution of the proceedings.
- (b) compounding of the offences may be done by the officers as notified by the State Government in this regard.
(2) Where a penalty or an offence has been compounded under sub-section (1), the person liable for penalty or the offender, as the case may be, shall be discharged of the penalty or offence and there shall be no further proceedings against him in respect of such penalty or offence.
(3) Any person, who fails to comply with an order made by the officer referred to in sub-section (1), shall be liable to pay an additional penalty equivalent to twenty percent of the maximum penalty provided for the offence.
(4) The amount of composition received under sub-section (1) shall be credited to the fund for the unorganised workers mentioned in Section 21 of this Code.

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