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Penalties and procedure. - (1) An employer who fails to submit draft standing orders as required by section , or who modifies his standing orders otherwise than in accordance with section 10, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day after the first during which the offence continues. (2) An employer who does any act contravention of the standing orders finally certified under this Act or his industrial establishment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with a further fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every after the first during which the offence continues. (3) No prosecution for an offence punishable under this section shall be instituted except with the previous sanction of the appropriate Government. (4) No court inferior to that of 2[ a Metropolitan Magistrate of Judicial Magistrate of the second class] shall try any offence under this section. 3[ 13 A. Interpretation, etc., of standing orders.- If any question arises to the application or interpretation of a standing order certified under this Act, any employer or workman 4[ or a trade union or other representative body of the workmen] may refer the question to any one of the Labour Court constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), and specified for the disposal of such proceeding by the appropriate Government by notification in the Official Gazette, and the Labour Court