Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) When any licence, permit or pass is liable to be cancelled or suspended under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 30, or when any person is reasonably suspected of having committed an offence under this Act other than an offence under section 62 the Excise Commissioner or a Collector instead of enforcing such cancellation or suspension or instituting a prosecution in respect of such offence, may accept from the holder* of such licence, permit or pass or from such person a sum of money not exceeding five thousand rupees, and thereupon such holder or person, if in custody, shall be discharged, and no further proceedings in respect of such liability or offence shall be taken against him ; And if in any such case any property has been seized as liable to confiscation under this Act, the Excise Commissioner or Collector may release the same on receiving payment of the value thereof as estimated by him or of such smaller sum as he may think fit. (2) The Excise Commissioner or the Collector may also, after the institution against any person of a prosecution in respect of any offence under this Act other than offence under section 62 compound the offence on payment by such person of a sum of money not exceeding five thousand rupees. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section an Excise Officer not below the rank of an Inspector of Excise may, at any time, compounded an offence under this Act in respect of manufacture and possession of pachwai exceeding the quantity that may be exempted under section 79 but not exceeding five litres, on payment by the person THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY. OCTOBER 11, 2000 823 / - ■ ■ manufacturing or possession such pachwai of a sum not exceeding two hundred rupees. Contempt of Court.