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(1) Any authorised officer effecting under sub-section (1) of section 4 the arrest of a person who is found begging may seize any animal, the sore, wound, injury, deformity or disease of which was exposed or exhibited by such person with the object of obtaining or extorting alms. (2) The authorised officer may remove the animal to any infirmary appointed under section 6-B of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890, for detention therein and thereafter the provisions of that Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such animal. CHAPTER-IV CERTIFIED INSTITUTIONS AND THE AUTHORITIES FOR THEIR MANAGEMENT.