(2) In any area in which the Governor, as a consequence of apprehended danger to the public in such area, notifies in the Official Gazette in this behalf, any police officer or any person authorised by the Governor in this behalf may in any road, street, alley, public place, or open space, stop and search any person in such area for the purpose of ascertaining whether such person is carrying, in contravention of any law for the time being in force, any explosive or corrosive substance or any weapon of offence or any article which may be used as a weapon of offence and may seize any such substance together with its container, if any, or any such weapon or article discovered during such search :
Provided that every such search shall be made with due regard to decency and that no woman shall be searched except by a woman.
(2) Any officer authorised in this behalf by general or special order of a Deputy Commissioner or the Superintendent of Police may enter and search any place, vehicle, aircraft or animal and, for that purpose stop any vehicle, aircraft or animal and may seize any commodity, article or thing including any vehicle, aircraft or animal which, he has reason to believe, has been, is being or is about to be, used in contravening any order made under sub-section (1) of section 12 or for doing any subversive act.
(3) Anything seized under sub-section (1) shall be conveyed, and any commodity, article or thing including any vehicle, aircraft or animal seized under sub-section (2) shall be reported, without delay before a magistrate who may give such directions as to the temporary custody thereof as he may think fit, so, however, that where no prosecution in respect thereof is instituted within a period in his opinion reasonable, the magistrate may, subject to the provisions of any other law for the time being in force, give such orders as to the final disposal thereof as he deems expedient.
Cognizance of contraventions of the provisions of the Regulation or orders made thereunder.