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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Dominion Act, 1948 Section 15

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

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Dominion Act, 1948 Section 15 is part of Dominion Act, 1948 - OFFENCES AND PENALTIES. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) Any person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.

(2) Where any offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or was purporting to act in any such capacity, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions in that capacity and to all the circumstances.

(3) Proceedings in respect of an offence undersection 2-shall not be instituted except with the consent of the Advocate-General of India.

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Section Section 15 of the Dominion Act, 1948 (OFFENCES AND PENALTIES) is reproduced on this page as part of the Dominion Act, 1948. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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