CHAPTER-VIII SUPPLEMENTAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 32: Composition of Offences

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 1 of 2025.

The Act was made as President's Act No. 11 of 1973; this copy shows the enacting words substituted by U.P. Act No. 30 of 1974, and the Reasons for the Enactment printed after section 60 are not reproduced.

The marginal headings printed beside each section in this edition are shown as the section headings; section 60 carries no marginal heading in this copy.

(1) Any offence made punishable by or under this Act may either before or after the institution of proceedings, be compounded by ¹[the Vice-Chairman (or any officer authorised by him in that behalf by general or special order)], on such terms, including any term as regards payment of a composition fee, as ¹[the Vice-Chairman] (or such officer) may think fit.

(2) Where an offence has been compounded, the offender, if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceedings shall be taken against him in respect of the offence compounded.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by sec. 9 of U. P. Act No. 03 of 1997.

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