Section 63
Punishment for carrying out a business without licence.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
If any person or food business
operator (except the persons exempted from licensing under sub-section (2) of section 31 of this Act),
himself or by any person on his behalf who is required to obtain licence, manufacturers, sells, stores or
distributes or imports any article of food without licence, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a
term which may extend to six months and also with a fine which may extend to five lakh rupees.