law: Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
  41. Composition of
  
  certain offences.-
  1.  
  
    Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, any offence
  
  punishable under this Act (whether committed by an individual or association or
  
  any officer or employee thereof), not being an offence punishable with
  
  imprisonment only, may, before the institution of any prosecution, be
  
  compounded by such officers or authorities and for such sums as the Central
  
  Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this
  
  behalf.
  2.  Nothing
  
  in sub-section (1) shall apply to an offence committed by an individual or
  
  association or its officer or other employee within a period of three years
  
  from the date on which a similar offence committed by it or him was compounded
  
  under this section.
  Explanation.-- For the purposes of this
  
  section, any second or subsequent offence committed after the expiry of a
  
  period of three years from the date on which the offence was previously
  
  compounded, shall be deemed to be a first offence.
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  3.  Every
  
  officer or authority referred to in sub-section (1) shall exercise the powers
  
  to compound an offence, subject to the direction, control and supervision of
  
  the Central Government.
  4.  
  
    Every
  
  application for the compounding of an offence shall be made to the officer or
  
  authority referred to in sub-section (1) in such form and manner along with
  
  such fee as may be prescribed.
  5.  Where
  
  any offence is compounded before the institution of any prosecution, no
  
  prosecution shall be instituted in relation to such offence, against the offender
  
  in relation to whom the offence is so compounded.
  6.  
  
    Every
  
  officer or authority referred to in sub-section (1), while dealing with a
  
  proposal for the compounding of an offence for a default in compliance with any
  
  provision of this Act which requires by an individual or association or its
  
  officer or other employee to obtain permission or file or register with, or
  
  deliver or send to, the Central Government or any prescribed authority any
  
  return, account or other document, may, direct, by order, if he or it thinks
  
  fit to do so, any individual or association or its officer or other employee to
  
  file or register with, such return, account or other document within such time
  
  as may be specified in the order.