law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  50. Cognizance of
  
  certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure.-
  1.  No
  
  court shall take cognizance of an offence under section 42 or section 43 or
  
  section 44 except on complaint in writing made by the Registrar or any officer authorised
  
  by him in writing: Provided that in relation to clause (b) of sub-section (1)
  
  of section 42, a court shall take a cognizance of an offence on the basis of a
  
  certificate issued by the Registrar to the effect that a registered
  
  geographical indication has been represented as registered in respect of any
  
  goods in respect of which it is not in fact registered.
  2.  No
  
  court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of
  
  the first class shall try an offence under this Act.
  3.  The
  
  offences under section 39 or section 40 or section 41 shall be cognizable.
  4.    Any
  
  police officer not below the rank of deputy superintendent of police or
  
  equivalent, may, if he satisfied that any of the offences referred to in
  
  sub-section (3) has been, is being, or is likely to be, committed, search and
  
  seize without warrant t e goods, die, block, machine, plate, other instruments
  
  or things involved in committing the offence, wherever found, and all the
  
  articles so seized shall, as soon as practicable, be produced before the
  
  Judicial Magistrate of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case
  
  may be:
  Provided that 
  
  the police officer, before making any search and seizure, shall obtain the
  
  opinion of the Registrar on the facts involved in the offence relating to
  
  geographical indication and shall abide by the opinion so obtained.
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  5.  Any
  
  person having an interest in any article seized under sub-section (4), may,
  
  within fifteen days of such seizure, make an application to the Judicial
  
  Magistrate of the first class or Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,
  
  for such article being restored to him and the Magistrate, after hearing the
  
  application and the prosecution, shall make such order on the application as he
  
  may deem fit.