Section 15. Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of things for offences against the two last foregoing sections

15. Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of things for offences against the two last foregoing sections. 16. Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes. --- CHAPTER IV. TAXATION AND CANTONMENT FUND. Taxation. 17. General power of taxation. 18. Extension of Act XX of 1856 to certain cantonments. 15. (1) Any police-officer may, without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person whom he finds committing an offence against either of the two last foregoing sections, and may seize and detain any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug in respect of which such an offence has been committed, and any vessels or coverings in which the liquor or drug is contained. (2) Where a person accused of an offence against section 13 has been previously convicted of an offence against that section, an officer in charge of a police-station may, with the written permission of a Magistrate, seize and detain any spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug within the cantonment, or within the limits prescribed under section 13, which at the time of the alleged commission of the subsequent offence belonged to, or was in the possession of, the person. (3) The 183 Cantonments. [ACT XIII (Chapter III.—Spirituous Liquors and Intoxicating Drugs.—Section 16. Chapter IV.—Taxation and Cantonment Fund.—Section 17.) (3) The Court convicting a person of an offence against section 13 or section 14 may order the confiscation of the whole or any part of anything seized under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2). (4) Subject to the provisions of Chapter XLIII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882, anything seized under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) and not confiscated under sub-section (3) shall be restored to the person from whom it was taken.