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CHAPTER IX PENALTIES, COMPENSATION AND ADJUDICATION

Section 45: Residuary penalty

The Information Technology Act, 2000

Whoever contravenes any 1[rules, regulations, directions or orders] made under this Act, for the contravention of which no penalty has been separately provided, shall be liable to pay a 2[penalty not exceeding one lakh rupees, in addition to compensation to the person affected by such contravention not exceeding—

(a) ten lakh rupees, by an intermediary, company or body corporate; or

(b) one lakh rupees, by any other person.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by ibid., s. 2 and Schedule, for “rules or regulations” (w.e.f. 30-11-2023).
  2. 2.Subs. by ibid., s. 2 and Schedule, for certain words (w.e.f. 30-11-2023).

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