No_ person shall be tried for any offence against the provisions of this Act, or of any rule, or bye-law made under it unless complaint is made within three months of the commission of the offence by the police, or the executive authority or the Health Officer, or by a person expressly authorised in this behalf by the local authority, the executive authority or the Health Officer:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall effect the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 in regard to the power of certain Magistrates to take cognizance of offences upon information received or upon their own knowledge or suspicion.
148. Power to compound offences —The executive authority or the Health Officer may compound any offence against this Act or the rules or bye-laws made thereunder which may, by rules made by the Government, be declared compoundable.
The power to compound any offence so declared may also be exercised by such other authority or person as may be authorised in that behalf by rules made by the Government.