Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Adapted in G.O.Ms.No.162, Revenue (Excise-II) Department, dated 10.09.2015. Things liable to confiscation. Act 17 of 1968. 10 [Act No.17 of 1995] 33[13. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force where, anything liable for confiscation under section 12 is seized and detained under the provisions of this Act, the officer seizing and detaining such property shall without any unreasonable delay, produce the said seized property before the Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise who has jurisdiction over the area. (2) On production of the said seized property under sub-section (1), the Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise if satisfied that an offence under this Act has been committed may whether or not a prosecution is instituted for the commission of such an offence, order confiscation of such property: 34[Provided that the Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise specially empowered in that behalf may accept such sum of money as may be prescribed in lieu of confiscation and release the animals or vessels or carts or other vehicles reasonably suspected of involvement in any offence falling under sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of section 8 of this Act.] (3) while making an order of confiscation under sub- section (2), the Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise may also order that such of the properties to which the order of confiscation relates which in his opinion need not be preserved; or are not fit for human consumption be destroyed. (4) Where the Deputy Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise after passing an order of confiscation under sub- section (2) is of the opinion that it is expedient in public