Section 19(1)(a) in The Bihar Saw Mills (Regulation) Act, 1990
(a)accept from any person whose licence is liable to be revoked or suspended under sub-section (5) of Section 7 or who is reasonably suspected of having committed for the first time of an offence relating to non-submission of return under Section 9 or of non-maintenance of account of wood under Section 10 or sawing of wood unlawfully obtained which is of less than half a cubic metre in volume, a sum not exceeding five thousand rupees in lieu of such revocation or suspension or by way of composition for such offence, as the case may be and may impose as a penalty a sum not exceeding five thousand rupees and shall order confiscation of unlawfully obtained wood which was seized;