(1) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or any rule made thereunder contravention of which is made 1 Substituted for the words “Agriculture Inspector” by Punjab Act No.7 of 2022, Section 10 2 Substituted for the word “fruit” by Punjab Act No.7 of 2022, Section 10 3 Added by Punjab Act No.7 of 2022, Section 11 Powers of inspection.
Power of State Government to prohibit or regulate the bringing into or taking out of the State fruit plants.
Penalty.
punishable under this section or attempts to contravene or abets the contravention of any such provision, rule, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to 1[fifty thousand rupees in the form of damage report.
This amount shall be submitted to the Horticulture Certification Agency.]
(2) If the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, the company as well as every person in charge of, and responsible to the company for the conduct of its business at the time of the commission of the offence shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence, and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
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(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section
(2), where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or that the commission of the offence is attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Explanation - For the purposes of this section -
(a) "company" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and
(b) "director", in relation to a firm, is a partner in the firm.