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Section 12. Power to arrest without warrant and power of search. Act XVI of 1927

THE UNITED PROVINCES NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1935

Act no. 1 of 19351935In forceUttarakhand (State Act)

12. (1) In respect of an offence punishable under section 11 of this Act such of the provisions of section 64 to 68 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927, as are applicable, shall apply, as if such offence were a forest offence punishable under the Indian Forest Act, 1927. (2) Any Forest Officer or Police Officer may, without a warrant, search within a park any place, building, tent, vehicle or receptacle reasonably suspected to contain anything liable to confircation under sub-section (2) of section 11, and may seize and retain any thing wherever found.