law: The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 
  69. Power to compound
  
  offences. - 
  1.     
  
    The
  
  Commissioner of Food Safety may, by order, empower the Designated Officer, to
  
  accept from petty manufacturers who himself manufacture and sell any article of
  
  food, retailers, hawkers, itinerant vendors, temporary stall holders against
  
  whom a reasonable belief exists that he has committed an offence or
  
  contravention against this Act, payment of a sum of money by way of composition
  
  of the offence which such person is suspected to have committed.
  2.     
  
    On
  
  the payment of such sum of money to such officer, the suspected person, if in
  
  custody, shall be discharged and no further proceedings in respect of the
  
  offence shall be taken against such person.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  sum of money accepted or agreed to be accepted as composition under sub- section
  
  (1), shall not be more than one lakh rupees and due regard shall be made to the
  
  guidelines specified in section 49: Provided that no offence, for which
  
  punishment of imprisonment has been prescribed under this Act, shall be
  
  compounded.