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Penalty for Non Registration. (1)Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act shall, if no penalty is provided elsewhere, be punishable for the first offence with fine which may extend to ten 9 Searchable PDF created by OCR.space (Free Version) Tripura Gazette, Extraordinary Issue, December 20, 2018 A. D. 10 Tripura Gazette, Extraordinary Issue, December 20, 2018 A. D. thousand rupees, for any second offence with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees and for each subsequent offence with fine which may extend 10 five lakh rupees or six months imprisonment or both; (2)No coun inferior to that of a Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act, 24, Penalty for Disobedience, Obstruction and Refusal of Information. (l) The District Registering Autllority or any other person duly authorized by such authority, within its respective jurisdiction, is empowered to make inspection of ally establishment, at all reasonable time and the Clinical Establishments are liable to show cause for disobedience, obstructi011 and relilsal of information for the first instance; (2) If no reply is received in stipulated time or the reply is not satisfactory, the District Registering Authority, on recording of the reasons of his findings ill writing, shall have the power to impose and realize fine, which may extend to Rs 10,000/3 with the prior approval of the Direelort Family Welfare & Preventive Medicine; (3) If any clinical establishment, doesn't reply to the show cause or fails to pay the fine, within 30 days, the registration of the establishment may be cancelled, with the prior approval of the Director, Family Welfare & Preventive Xledicine, 25 Offences by Government Departments. Where all offence under this Aet has been committed by a Department of Government and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, any ofT1cer OTofT1cial, other than the Head of the Department, such officer or official shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly