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(1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section Penalty. (2) of section 3 °I:sub-section (1) of section 13 or section 33 shall be punishable with imprisonment which may expend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both : Provided that a market committee may, if it so decides, compound the offence in a sum not exceeding one thousand rupees for each of the offences and where the offence is a continuing one, in a further sum of one hundred rupees for every day during which the offence continues. (2) No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except with the previous sanction of such authority as may be prescribed.