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Where any person commits an offence against the provisions of this Act. in the presence of a Police Officer, or of any other person authorised in this behalf by name or in virtue of his office by the [Government or the local authority], such officer or person may seize the fish, if any, captured or killed and also any instrument used in the commission of such offence, and shall send them without unnecessary delay, together with a report of the circumstances, to a Magistrate competent to take cognizance of the alleged offence. Substituted by Act 16 of 2000.