Additional fine where article or currency unavailable: court may impose enhanced penalty in lieu of confiscation. Section 24 authorizes the court, upon conviction for conduct rendering an article or currency liable to confiscation but where the article or currency is unavailable, to impose an additional fine not exceeding five times its value or a prescribed minimum floor, whichever is higher; this additional fine is payable in addition to any other fine under the Act and operates notwithstanding the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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Additional fine where article or currency unavailable: court may impose enhanced penalty in lieu of confiscation.
Section 24 authorizes the court, upon conviction for conduct rendering an article or currency liable to confiscation but where the article or currency is unavailable, to impose an additional fine not exceeding five times its value or a prescribed minimum floor, whichever is higher; this additional fine is payable in addition to any other fine under the Act and operates notwithstanding the Code of Criminal Procedure.
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