31. Power of arrest and seizure

Any police officer or any officer of customs may arrest without a warrant any person whom he reasonably believes to have committed or to be committing an offence against this Act, and every offence against this Act shall be deemed to be a seizable offence for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure Code [Act 593].

Every person so arrested shall, together with any article as to which an offence may have been committed or which is otherwise reasonably believed by the officer making such arrest to be liable to forfeiture under this Act, be taken to a police station or to a customs office, and every person so arrested maybe searched at any convenient place provided that no female shall be searched except by a female.

Any police officer or officer of customs making an arrest under this section may seize and detain any package, receptacle and conveyance which he has reasonable grounds for believing is liable to forfeiture under section 30 or to detention under an order of the Court under section 38.