(1) Any police officer or other person effecting under sub-section (1) of section 4 the arrest of a person who was found begging may seize any animal the sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease of which was exposed or exhibited by such person with the object of obtaining or extorting alms.
(2) The police officer or other person effecting the arrest may remove such animal to any infirmary appointed under section 6B of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890, for detention therein pending its production before a Court.
(3) The court before which the person found begging is brought may direct that the animal shall be treated and cared for in such infirmary until it is fit for discharge or that it shall be sent to a, pinjrapole, or, if the veterinary officer in charge of the area in which the animal is found or such other veterinary officer as has been authorised by the rules made under section 15 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890, 5certifies that it is incurable or cannot be removed without cruelty, that it shall be destroyed; and the court may also order that, after release from the infirmary, the animal may be confiscated.
(4) An animal sent for care and treatment to an infirmary shall not, unless the court directs that it shall be sent to a pinjrapole or that it shall be destroyed, be released from such place except upon a certificate of its fitness for discharge issued by the veterinary officer in charge of the area in which the infirmary is situated or such other veterinary officer as has been authorised by rules made under section 15 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890.
31. The offences under sections 6 and 11 of this Act shall be cognizable and nonbailable.
32. All persons empowered to perform any function by this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code.
33. The provisions of Chapter XL1I of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, shall, so far as may be, apply to bonds taken under this Act.
34. For the purposes of appeal and revision under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, an order of detention under this Act (including an order of detention under section 5), shall be deemed to be a sentence of imprisonment for the same period.