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The executive authority or the Health Officer may compound any offence against this Act or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder which may, by rules made by the Government, be declared compoundable. The power to compound any offence so declared may also be exercised by such other authority or person as may be authorised in that behalf by rules made by the Government]. Inserted by Section 14 of the Madras Public Health (Amendment) Act, 1941 (Madras Act XIX of 1941) re-enacted permanently by Section 2(1) of, and the First Schedule to, the Madras Re-enacting Act, 1949 (Madras Act X of 1949).