Power to remove and take into custody of person committing offence in the fishing harbour terminal

Any officer or authority incharge of or employed in any fishing harbour terminal may remove from such area or may take into custody without a warrant and forthwith handover to a police officer incharge of the nearest police station, any person who within his view,- (a) wilfully causes any damage to any building, installation, equipment or vehicle ; or (b) without proper authority interferes with any of the activities inside the fishing harbour terminal: Provided that every such person taken into custody shall be produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such custody excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of Magistrate.