Procedure relating to arrests, searches etc.

Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, relating to arrests, detentions in custody, searches, summons, warrants of arrest, search-warrants, production of persons arrested and investigation of offences etc. shall be applicable to all action taken in relation there to under this Act: Provided that any offence under this Act may be investigated by an officer empowered under section 9 without the order of a Judicial Magistrate: Provided further that whenever an Excise Officer makes any arrest, seizure or search, he shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, make a full report of all the particulars of the arrest, seizure or search to his immediate official superior, and shall, unless bail is accepted under this section, take or send the person arrested, or the article seized, with convenient dispatch to a Judicial Magistrate for trial or adjudication.