5. Penalties
5. Penalties.—(1) Any publisher, including a publishing house, a publishing agency or individual, who contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rule made thereunder, shall be given an opportunity to fulfil the conditions of the Act or to remedy the contravention within thirty days on the service of a notice informing them of the contravention.
If on the expiry of thirty days from the date of service of the notice, the contravention persists---
the registration of the publisher with the National Agency for International Standard Book Number shall be suspended for a period of one year or up to the day the books are submitted to the designated libraries by the publisher, whichever is earlier;
the publisher shall be debarred from receiving an International Standard Book Number for a period of one year or up to the day the books are submitted to the designated libraries by the publisher, whichever is earlier.
If the contravention persists, suspension of registration, and debarment, the publisher’s registration with National Agency for International Standard Book Number shall be permanently cancelled and the publisher shall be permanently debarred from receiving an International Standard Book Number.
Amendment notes (1)
- 1Subs w.e.f. 22-6-2026 Subs. by Act 8 of 2026, s. 2 and Sch., for section 5 (w.e.f. 22-6-2026).