43. General penalty

Every person who contravenes any provision of this Act or any regulation made thereunder commits an offence under this Act and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees and in any case where such offence is continued after conviction, to a further fine not exceeding five thousand rupees for each day on which such offence being continued after conviction.

Upon conviction of any person for an offence under this Act, a Magistrate may, in addition to, or in lieu of, imposing any punishment specified for the offence under subsection (1), make an order directing that any installation or other apparatus involved in the commission of the offence shall be dismantled and removed before a date specified in such order.

An officer authorised in writing by the Regulator may institute proceedings in a Magistrate’s court for an offence under this Act notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other written law.

No prosecution for an offence under this Act shall be instituted except with the written sanction of the Regulator.