6.8 Mechanisms for Penalties and Settlement of Compensation Claims

1. The administrative penalties — the Department's orders (the fines, the goods' destruction, the closure faces, the publicisation of offences); the offence-tiered fines (the adulteration-and- substandard scales). 2. The criminal route — the serious offences' prosecution (the court's punishment — the imprisonment faces for the gravest wrongs). 3. The compensation claims — the victim's route: the complaint to the Department (the settlement's attempt) and the Consumer Court's claim (the specialised forum — the Government's established court; the District Court's role in the machinery); the claim's scope (the damages from the defective goods-and-services — the Art 44 face). 4. The appeal's route — the higher forum's review (the High Court's face). 5. The settlement's encouragement — the mediation faces (the disputes' early resolution).