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(1) The executive officer of a local authority or any member of the public health establishment of a local authority not below the rank of a Health or Sanitary Inspector, who sees a person committing any of the offences specified in sub-section (2) in the area over which the local authority has jurisdiction, may arrest such person, if his name and address are unknown to the executive officer or member aforesaid and such person on demand declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer or member has reason to believe to be false. Any person so arrested shall be handed over to the officer in charge of the nearest police station as expeditiously as possible. (2) The offences referred to in sub-section (1) are-- (a) offences against any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule or bye-law made thereunder; and (b) offences falling under any of the provisions of the Acts mentioned below, if such provisions are in force in the area over which the local authority has jurisdiction-- (i) Chapters VII to XIII, both inclusive, of the Madras City Municipal Act, 1919, read with Section 357 of that Act and Schedules VII and VIII thereto; (ii) Chapters VII to XIII both inclusive, of the Madras District Municipalities Act, 1920, read with Section 313 of that Act and Schedules VII and VIII thereto; (iii) Chapters VIII to XI, both inclusive, of the Madras Local Bodies Act, 1920, read with Section 207 of that Act and Schedules VIII and IX thereto; [(iii-a) Sections 79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90 to 92 and 123 of the Madras Village Panchayats Act, 1950, read with Section 115 of that Act and Schedules I and II thereto;] (iv) Sections 53 and 73 of the Madras City Police Act, 1888; (v) Clauses (9) and (11) of Section 3 and Sections 4 and 10 of the Towns Nuisances Act, 1889; and [(vi) Section 5 of the Madras Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1918.] Inserted by Section 135(vi) of the Madras Village Panchayats Act, 1950 (Madras Act X of 1950). Now the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954.