Inspection of place for sale of food or drink and seizure of unwholesome articles or utensils found therein.-

(1) Any Councillor or any committee authorized by the Mayor in this behalf or any officer of the Corporation duly authorized in this behalf by the Commissioner may enter into and inspect any market, building, shop, stall or place used for the sale of any animal, food, drink or drug intended for human consumption or medical treatment or for the preparation, manufacture or storage of the same for sale, and may inspect and examine any such animal, food, drink or drug and any utensil or vessel used for preparing manufacturing or containing any such food, drink or drug. (2) If any such animal appears to such officer to be diseased, or if any such food drink or drug appears to him to be unsound, unwholesome or un fit for human consumption or medical treatment, as the case may be, or to be adulterated, or n ot to fulfill the specified onditions or to be a substitute or if any such utensil or vessel is of such kind or in such state as to render any food, drink or drug, prepared, manufactured or contained therein unwholesome or unfit for human consumption or medical treatment, he may seize and remove such animal, food, drink, drug, utensil or vessel in order that the same may be dealt with as hereinafter in this chapter provided, and he may arrest any person in charge of any such animal, food, drink or drug. (3) The authorized officer may, instead of removing any animal, food, drink, drug, utensil or vessel seized under sub-section (2) leave the same in such safe custody as the Commissioner directs in order that it may be dealt with as hereinafter in this chapter provided and no person shall remove it from such custody or interfere or tamper with in any way while it is so detained.