Disposal of animals and articles of non-perishable nature seized under section 338.

(1) Any animal and any article not of a perishable nature and any untensil or vessel seized under section 338 shall be forthwith taken before a Magistrate of the First Class. (2) If it shall appear to such Magistrate that any such animal or article is diseased, unsound or unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, as the case may be, or is not what it was represented to be or that such utensil or vessal is of such kind or in such state as to render any article prepared, manufactured or contained therein unwholesome or unift for human consumption, he may, and, if it is diseased, unsound, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption, he shall cause the same to be destroyed, at the charge of the person in whose possession it was at the time of its seizure, in such manner as to prevent the same being again exposed or hawked about for sale or used for human consumption, or for the preparation or manufacture of, or for containing any such article as aforesaid.