Powers of arrest and search in respect of seizable offences
120.—(1) The Chief Executive or any employee of the Authority deputed by him to act under this section may arrest without warrant —
(a)
any person found committing or attempting to commit or employing or aiding any person to commit a seizable offence under this Act; or
(b)
any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has been guilty of a seizable offence under this Act,
and may search any person so arrested, except that no female shall be searched except by a female.
(2) Every person so arrested shall, together with any article as to which an offence may have been committed or attempted to be committed, be taken to a police station.
(3) For the purposes of this section, offences punishable under sections 70, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 85, 87, 90(a), (b), (c) and (d) and 91 to 95 shall be deemed to be seizable offences within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68].