(1) A Police Officer may apprehend without warrant any person found gaming and gambling with cards, dice, counters or other instruments of gaming used in playing any game in any public market, fair, street, place or thoroughfare, or any person setting any birds or animals to fight in any such public market, fair, street, place or thoroughfare, or any person there present aiding or abetting such public fighting of bird and animals.
(2) Such person, when apprehended, shall be brought without delay before a, Magistrate, and shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty as provided in section 5 or section 7 as the case may be ; and such Police Officer may seize all birds and animals and instruments of gaming found in such public place or on the person of those whom he shall so arrest, and the Magstrate may, on conviction of the offender, order such intruments to be forthwith destroyed and such birds and animals to be sold.
14. The State Government may by a general or special order exempt any social club or party playing games for the bona fide purposes of recreation only or any fight of birds in any public place from the operation of this Act and they may by notification delegate their powers under this section to any person or authority subordinate to them.