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Penalty for Offences :– (1) Any person who establishes or maintains a clinical establishment in contravention of the provision of Section 3 or who, being a certificate holder, fails, without reasonable excuse, to keep or affix the certificate of registration in the clincial establishment in contravention of sub-section (2) of Section 5, shall on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees and where any such person, after being convicted under this section for any offence continues to commit the offence or commits it for the second or any subsequent time, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine which may extend to twenty thousand rupees, or with both. 1[" (2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act, other than those mentioned in sub-section (1) and section 14-A, shall, on conviction be punishable with fine which may extend to five lakhs rupees and in case, where any such person, after conviction, underthis sub-section for any offence, cxontinues to commit the offence, he shall, on conviction, be punishable with further fine of one lakh rupees for