Section 1. Whenever the Assistant Commissioner is informed of the seizure of any article exceeding five sers in

21. Whenever the Assistant Commissioner is informed of the seizure of any article exceeding five sers in weight as liable to confiscation under this Act, he shall, with all convenient despatch, report the circumstances of the case to the Commissioner of the Division in which such seizure is made, who may thereupon proceed under section twelve. If the article seized does not exceed five sers in weight, such Assistant Commissioner may dispose of the case himself under the said section. Procedure on detention of article subject to additional duty. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be called "The Indian Salt Act," 1882; and it shall come into force at once. This section, sections two, seven and eight, and so much of this Act as refers to offences against any of its provisions or against any rules made under it, extend to the whole of British India; The rest of this Act extends to the territories for the time being respectively administered by the Lieutenant-Governors of the North-Western Provinces and the Panjáb and the Chief Commissioners of Oudh, the Central Provinces and Ajmír and Mairwára, to the Province of Sindh, to the Districts of the Patna Division, and to British territory under the jurisdiction of the Agent to the Governor General in Central India; and any portion of this Act, other than the portions specified in the second paragraph of this section, may be extended, by order of the Governor General in Council published in the Gazette of India, to any part Salt. | ACT XII part of British India other than the territories, Province and Districts mentioned in the third paragraph of this section. Repeal of enactments.