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| (1) Any person who is guilty of an offence under this Act shall, upon conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine of five hundred rupees or to a term of imprisonment of either description not exceeding one month, or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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| (2) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate, any person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of such body corporate, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the other circumstances. |
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