Powers of executive officer and public health staff to arrest offenders against Act, etc.

(1) The executive officer of a local authority or any member of the public health establishment of a local authority not below the rank of Health or Sanitary Inspector, who sees a person committing any of the offences specified in sub-section (2) in the area over which such officer or member has jurisdiction may arrest such person, if his name and address are unknown to the executive officer or member aforesaid and such person on demand declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer or member has reason to believe to be false. (2) The offences referred to in sub-section (1) are— (a) offences against any of the provisions of th 3 3°! or of any rule or bye-law made thereunder, and (b) offences falling under any of the provisions of the Acts mentioned below, if such provisions are in force in the area over which the local authority has jurisdiction; (i) Chapters VII to XIII, both inciusive, of the Trivandrum City Municipal Act, read with Section 375 of that Act and Schedules V and VI thereto; (ii) Chapters VIT to XIII, both mclusive, of the Travancore District Municipalities Act, J116. read with Section 334 of that Act and Schedules V and VI thereto; (iii) Chapters VII to XIJI, both inclusive, of the Cochin Municipal Act, XVIII of 1113, read with Section 321 of that Act and Schedules VII and VIII thereto; and (iv) Section 10 of the Travancore Prevention of Adulteration Act 1124 or Section 4 of the Cochin Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, XIV cf 1109.