Production of articles, etc., seized before magistrate and powers of magistrate to deal with them

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Chapter XII LICENCES AND FEES

Statutory text

(1) Articles of food, animal, poultry, fish, utensils or vessels, seized under section 395 or 397 and not destroyed under section 399 shall be produced before a magistrate.
(2) Whether or not complaint is laid before the magistrate of any offence under the Indian Penal Code (Central Act XLV of 1860) or under this Act, if it appears to the magistrate on taking such evidence as he may think necessary 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 397 he may order the same-
- (a) to be forfeited to the corporation,
- (b) to be destroyed at the charge of the owner or person 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.

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