Compounding of offences: payment-based settlement allowed subject to prescribed manner and statutory exclusions. Compounding authorises the Chief Commissioner to compound offences on payment of a prescribed amount and in a prescribed manner, and the Central Government is empowered to make rules specifying the amount and manner of compounding; express statutory exclusions bar compounding for specified repeat compounding cases, offences overlapping with narcotics law, high-value goods cases, and persons convicted on or after the statutory cutoff.
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Compounding of offences: payment-based settlement allowed subject to prescribed manner and statutory exclusions.
Compounding authorises the Chief Commissioner to compound offences on payment of a prescribed amount and in a prescribed manner, and the Central Government is empowered to make rules specifying the amount and manner of compounding; express statutory exclusions bar compounding for specified repeat compounding cases, offences overlapping with narcotics law, high-value goods cases, and persons convicted on or after the statutory cutoff.
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