{"act":{"id":"assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022","short_title":"The Assam Municipal Corporation Act, 2022","long_title":null,"act_number":"8","act_year":2022,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":368,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"368","heading":null,"text":"(1) The Commissioner or, if so authorized by the Corporation in this behalf by a general or special order, the Municipal Health Officer, the Municipal Engineer or any other officer of the Corporation may, either before or after the institution of the proceeding and on payment of such fee as may be specified by regulations, compound any offence as may be classified as compoundable by the State Government by rules. Notwithstanding adia'da (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) above, no offence punishable by or under this Act or by any rule or regulation made thereunder shall be compoundable if such offence is committed due to the failure to comply with any notice, order or requisition, as the case may be, issued by or on behalf of any of the municipal authorities referred to in section 11 of the Act, unless and until such notice, order or requisition, as the case may be, has been complied with in so far as such compliance is possible. (3) Where an offence has been compounded, the offender, if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceeding shall be taken against him in respect of the offence so compounded. Chapter XLII Supplemental Provisions Miscellaneous and Transitory Provisions Provisions of the chapter to override other provisions.","html":"<p>(1) The Commissioner or, if so authorized by the Corporation in this behalf by a general or special order, the Municipal Health Officer, the Municipal Engineer or any other officer of the Corporation may, either before or after the institution of the proceeding and on payment of such fee as may be specified by regulations, compound any offence as may be classified as compoundable by the State Government by rules. Notwithstanding adia'da (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) above, no offence punishable by or under this Act or by any rule or regulation made thereunder shall be compoundable if such offence is committed due to the failure to comply with any notice, order or requisition, as the case may be, issued by or on behalf of any of the municipal authorities referred to in section 11 of the Act, unless and until such notice, order or requisition, as the case may be, has been complied with in so far as such compliance is possible. (3) Where an offence has been compounded, the offender, if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceeding shall be taken against him in respect of the offence so compounded. Chapter XLII Supplemental Provisions Miscellaneous and Transitory Provisions Provisions of the chapter to override other provisions.</p>","words":212,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-municipal-corporation-act-2022/section/368/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/4bdb8f2a-0dcc-4f76-9c7c-8d6da8ab50d9.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/610a677f-104b-48d6-a380-d50e09198f79/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}