(1) Any police officer may arrest and search without warrant any person referred to in section 9.
(2) Any such police officer may seize all moneys, all instruments of gaming and all things reasonably suspected to be instruments of gaming found in the public street, thoroughfare or place or found with the persons arrested by him and all birds or animals found with the persons arrested by him or are reasonably suspected to have been kept for being set to fight in the public street, thoroughfare or place.
11. When any thing is seized under sub-section (2) of section 10, and if the magistrate is satisfied that the police officer who seized it has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the thing so seized was an instrument of gaming, it shall be presumed that such thing was an instrument of gaming and that the person on or about whom the thing was found was present in the public street, thoroughfare or place for the purpose of gaming.
12. On conviction of any person under section 9, the convicting magistrate may order that-
(i) all the instruments of gaming seized, shall forthwith be destroyed or forfeited;
Power to arrest without warrant for gaming or setting birds or animals to fight in public street or place and to seize moneys, instruments of gaming birds and animals.
Presumptive proof of gaming.
Instruments of gaming etc., found in public street or place may be ordered to be destroyed or forfeited on conviction.
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(ii) all birds or animals seized, shall be sold and the proceeds thereof with all the moneys seized shall be forfeited.
13. Any person who is concerned in gaming contrary to the provisions of this Act, and who is examined as a witness before a magistrate on the trial of any person for a breach of any of the provisions of this Act and who upon such examination, makes true and faithful discovery to the best of his knowledge of all things as to which he is so examined, shall thereupon receive from the said magistrate a certificate in writing to that effect and shall be freed from any prosecution under this Act for any thing previously done in respect of that particular gaming.