Section 36 - Power to impose additional fine where article or currency or security is not available for confiscation: FCRA 2010

Section 36 of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 2010 : "Power to impose additional fine where article or currency or security is not available for confiscation"

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), the court trying a person, who, in relation to any article or currency or security, whether Indian or foreign, does or omits to do any act which act or omission would render such article or currency or security liable to confiscation under this Act, may, in the event of the conviction of such person for the act or omission.
 

 

aforesaid, impose on such person a fine not exceeding five times the value of the article or currency or security or one thousand rupees, whichever is more, if such article or currency or security is not available for confiscation, and the fine so imposed shall be in addition to any other fine which may be imposed on such person under this Act.