Section 50: Penalty for selling food not of the nature or substance or quality demanded.

The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006Central Act · Act 34 of 2006

Any person who sells to the purchaser's prejudice any food which is not in compliance with the provisions of this Act or the regulations made thereunder, or of the nature or substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five lakh rupees:

Provided that the persons covered under sub-section (2) of section 31, shall for such non-compliance be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
Section	50
Marginal note	Penalty for selling food not of the nature or substance or quality demanded.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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