Factors for determining punishment require courts to weigh company size, business nature, public interest, default and repetition. Courts must consider company size, nature of business, injury to public interest, nature of the default and repetition of the default when fixing fines or imprisonment to ensure proportionality. Separately, One Person Companies and small companies, and officers in default, face reduced maximum punishments capped at one half of the otherwise prescribed limits for specified statutory defaults.
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Factors for determining punishment require courts to weigh company size, business nature, public interest, default and repetition.
Courts must consider company size, nature of business, injury to public interest, nature of the default and repetition of the default when fixing fines or imprisonment to ensure proportionality. Separately, One Person Companies and small companies, and officers in default, face reduced maximum punishments capped at one half of the otherwise prescribed limits for specified statutory defaults.
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