71. Any person who-
(a) carries on any insurance business, or commences any insurance business, without being duly registered under this Act, or |
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(b) carries on any class of insurance business which he is not authorized under this Act to carry on, |
| shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment. |