Section 12 of The Uttar Pradesh Krishi Utpadan Mandi (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2018 — Amendment of section 37-A

In section 37-A of the principal Act, for sub-section (1) the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely :- "(1) A market committee or its sub-committee or with the authorization by a resolution of a committee, its Chairman, may accept from any person who has committed or is reasonably suspected of having committed an offence punishable under this Act in addition to the fee or other amount recoverable from him, a sum of money equal to ten times the sum of market fee and development cess assessed due on the equivalent agricultural produce in accordance with the explanation given in the proviso to sub-rule (1) of Rule 66 of the Uttar Pradesh Krishi Utpadan Mandi Niyamavali, 1965 or Rupees Two Lakh, whichever is less and for other offence, a sum of money not exceeding rupees twenty thousand by way of composition fee and compound the offence."