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| (1) Any Shipping Officer, officer of customs, Surveyor or police officer may arrest without warrant any person offending in his view against any provision of this Act or any subsidiary legislation made thereunder and take him before a Court, to be dealt with according to law. |
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| (2) Any article in respect of which, any offence referred to in sub-section (1) is believed to have been committed may be seized and taken to a police station, unless sooner given up by order of a Court, until the charge relating to such offence is disposed of in due course of law. |
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