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• (1) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, any person compounding alleged to have committed an offence under any of the clauses other of offences. than clauses (a)and (b) of sub-section (1), and sub-sections (2), (3), (4) and (6), of section 14, or under any rule made under this Act, may either before or after the commencement of any proceedings against him in respect of such offence, at his option, compound such offence by paying to the prescribed authority such sum not exceeding fifty thousand rupees as may be determined by the prescribed authority. (2) On payment in full of such sum as may be determined by the prescribed authority under sub-section (/), by theperson concerned no proceedings shall be commenced against such person as aforesaid and any proceedings already commenced shall stand terminated.