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Id., sees. 64; see tor such offences supra notes 49, 55 to 60, 63, 76 and 79. 156 A TREATISE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS VII. Compounding of Offences Offences which are compoundable under section 65(1) of the Act include: (a) keeping and use of non-standard weights or measures;10-, (b) false quotes, announcements etc.; 104 (c) non-possession of a valid licence;105 (d) possession or use of unverified and u n s t a m p e d weights or measures;106 (e) failure to maintain records and registers;107 (f) omission to present units for verification or re-verification;10b (g) failure to produce for inspection weights, measures etc.;109 (h) sale of c o m m o d i t i e s by heaps w i t h o u t following p r e s c r i b e d procedures;110 (i) selling or delivering rejected weights or measures;111 and (j) offences for which penalty is not prescribed.112 A n y such offence may be c o m p o u n d e d by the c o n t r o l l e r or an authorised officer on payment, for credit to the state government, of a specified amount not exceeding the maximum amount of the fine prescribed for that offence.113 Provisions regarding compounding of offences do not apply to a person who commits the same or similar offence again within a period of three years from the date on which the first offence, committed by him, was compounded.114 But any second or subsequent offence committed after the expiry of a period of three years from the date on which the offence was previously compounded, is deemed to be the first offence." 1 Where an offence has been compounded, no proceeding or further proceeding, as the case may be, can be taken against the offender, in respect of the offence so compounded, and the offender, if in custody, has to be discharged forthwith. 1 1 6 The provisions of the IPC, in so far as such