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Crimes
2013, No. 10
PART IV
JUSTIFICATION OR EXCUSE IN
THE ARREST OF ANY PERSON
22. Execution of warrant-(1) A person duly authorised to
execute a warrant to arrest who in reliance on such a warrant,
thereupon arrests a person, believing in good faith and on
reasonable and probable grounds that he or she is the person
named in the warrant, shall be protected from criminal
responsibility to the same extent and subject to the same
provisions as if the person arrested had been the person named in
the warrant.
(2) A person called on to assist the person making such
arrest, and believing that the person in whose arrest he or she is
called on to assist is the person for whose arrest the warrant is
issued, and every person who is required to receive and detain
the person arrested, shall be protected from criminal
responsibility to the same extent and subject to the same
provisions as if the person arrested had been the person named in
the warrant.
23. Arrest by a constable pursuant to statutory
powers - A constable is justified in arresting any person
without warrant in accordance with the provisions of this Act or
in accordance with any other enactment conferring on him or her
a power so to arrest.
24. Arrest by a constable of person believed to have
committed an offence - Where under any enactment any
constable has power to arrest without warrant any person who
has committed an offence, the constable is justified in arresting
without warrant any person whom he or she believes, on
reasonable grounds, to have committed that offence, whether or
not the offence has in fact been committed, and whether or not
the arrested person committed it.
25. Arrest by other officers or persons pursuant to
statutory powers - An officer or other persons, not being
a constable, who is authorised by any enactment to arrest any