35. The Minister of Revenue or one of his deputies or associates, or any other person authorized thereto may, on a warrant obtained on satisfactory proof by affidavit, and signed by a judge of the Superior Court, a judge of the Provincial Court, or a justice of the peace, seize the animals, goods and effects forming part of a circus, show or menagerie, for the opening or exhibition of which no license has been taken, or for which there has been a refusal to show the required license; and may, without any other preliminary judgment or formality, sell and adjudge at public auction the animals, goods and effects so seized for the amount of the fine incurred, and costs of sale.
R. S. 1964, c. 79, s. 30; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 17, s. 2; 1972, c. 25, s. 58; 1978, c. 34, s. 2.