16. Offences to be seizable

Any proper officer may arrest without warrant an person whom he reasonably believes to have committed or to be committing an offence against this Act.

Every person so arrested shall, together with anything as to which an offence may have been committed or is being committed or which is otherwise reasonably believed by the officer making the arrest to be liable to forfeiture under this Act, be taken to a police station or to a customs office and may be searched, provided a female shall not be searched except by a female.

Subject to subsection 14(4), any proper officer making an arrest under this section may seize anything which he has reasonable grounds for believing is liable to forfeiture under the said section.