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(1) The 1[State] Government may empower any excise officer to grant bail, notwithstanding that such officer is not empowered under section 46. (2) When a person is arrested under this Act, otherwise than on warrant, by a person or officer who is not empowered to grant bail, he shall be produced before of forwarded to― (a) the nearest excise officer empowered to grant bail, or (b) the nearest officer in charge of a police station, whoever is nearer. (3) Whenever any person arrested under this Act, otherwise than or a warrant, is prepared to give bail, and is arrested by, or produced in accordance with sub-section (2) before an officer empowered to grant bail, he shall be released upon bail, or, at the discretion of the officer releasing him, on his own bond. Certain things liable to be seized. Security for appearance in case of arrest without warrant.