Under Section 63 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, a food business operator who is required…
Section 63 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, now headed “Penalty for carrying out a business without licence”, provides that a person or food business operator…
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Under Section 63 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, a food business operator who is required to obtain a licence but manufactures, sells, stores, distributes or imports any article of food without a licence is liable to:
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Correct answer B
Section 63 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, now headed “Penalty for carrying out a business without licence”, provides that a person or food business operator (other than those exempted from licensing under section 31(2)) who is required to obtain a licence and, himself or through any person on his behalf, manufactures, sells, stores, distributes or imports any article of food without a licence “shall be liable to penalty which may extend to ten lakh rupees” (formerly imprisonment up to six months and fine up to five lakh rupees; replaced by entry 35(C) of the Schedule to the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023, in force for this Act from 8 November 2023).
The provision no longer carries any imprisonment, so the two options combining imprisonment with fine are wrong, and five lakh rupees is not the present maximum penalty.