Section 14. Power to compound offences

(1) The Government may, from time to time by notification in the 2[Government Gazette], empower an officer of the Sericulture Department by name or as holding an office to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed any offence under this Act, other than an offence specified in section 6, a sum of money by way of compensation for the offence which such person is suspected to have committed. (2) On the payment of such sum of money to such officer, no further proceedings shall be taken against such person and with respect to the seized property, if any, such officer shall pass orders in writing as he may deem proper in the circumstances of each case.