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(1) No Court inferior to a Magistrate of the first class shall try an offence punishable under this Act. (2)25[***]. 26(3) An offence punishable under Section 5, 6, 7, 11, 16, 17 and 18 of this Act may be tried summarily. Provided that such complaint shall in the case of offences punishable under sub-section (2) of section 21, be made with the prior approval of the Administrator. 27[22 A. Any offence punishable under the provisions of Section 5, 6, 7, 11, 17, 18, of the Act or an offence punishable under any rule made under this Act may, either before or after institution of the prosecution, be compounded by the offender by submitting an application to such officer as maybe authorized by the government in this behalf on such terms and on payment of such fine as the officer so authorized may specify by an order and on payment of such fine no further proceedings shall be taken against such person. Provided that the amount of fine shall not, in any case, exceed the maximum amount of fine which may be imposed for such offence under, the Act. Provided further that nothing contained in this section shall apply to a person who commits the same offence within a period of 3 years from the date on which the first offence committed by him was compounded.]’’ Indemnity