PRODUCTION OF ARTICLE SEIZED BEFORE MAGISTRATE AND POWER OF MAGISTRATE TO DEAL WITH THEM

PRODUCTION OF ARTICLE SEIZED BEFORE MAGISTRATE AND POWER OF MAGISTRATE TO DEAL WITH THEM.—

1. (1) Articles of food, animals, poultry, fish, utensils or vessels seized from a Municipal area under section 479 and not destroyed under section 481 shall, as soon as possible, be produced before a Magistrate of the First Class having jurisdiction in that area.
2. (2) Where the Magistrate, whether on a complaint or otherwise, on taking such evidence as he considers necessary, is of opinion that any such animal, poultry or fish is diseased or any such article is noxious or any such utensil or vessel is of such kind or in such state as is described in section 479, he may order the same -
   • (a) to be forfeited to the Municipality;
   • (b) to be destroyed at the expense of the owner thereof or persons in whose possession it was at the time of seizure, in such manner as to, prevent the same being again exposed or hawked about for sale, or used for human food or for the manufacture or preparation of or for containing any such article as aforesaid.