Notwithstanding anything in the Public Revenues Act 1953, the power conferred on the Secretary by subsection (3) of this section to direct the disposal of any property forfeited to the Crown under that subsection shall, in any case where the prosecution was commenced on the information of an officer of an acclimatisation society other than a department of State, include power to dispose of the property to that society, without consideration, for the purposes of sale; and the property shall be sold by the society and the proceeds of sale shall be paid into its funds and applied for the purposes of the society.”