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(1) Any Magistrate or any PoIice Officer not tbaudu. below the rank of a Sub-Inspector or any person . ~ m . specially authorised by notification, by the State Government in this behalf, may- . (i) remove summarily from the auditorium a person who is found smoking therein during the prohibited period; and (b) arrest such person without warrant if he- (i) faiIs to desist .from smoking when directed by such auJhority not to smoke ; or (ii) refuses or fails to declare his identity, when required by such authority ; or (iii) is reasonably suspected by such authority of giving a false identity. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub section (I), any person who contravenes the provisions . of section 3 shall be punishable with fine which may extend for a st .offence to twenty-five rupees and , for a second or subsequent offence to one, hundred rupees.