2013, No. 10
Crimes
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person without warrant is justified in so arresting any person in
accordance with the provisions of that enactment.
26. Persons assisting constable or officer in arrest-(1) A
person called upon by a constable to assist him or her in the
arrest of any person believed or suspected to have committed any
offence is justified in assisting unless the person knows that there
is no reasonable ground for the belief or suspicion.
(2) Where in any enactment it is provided that any officer or
person, not being a constable, may call upon any other person to
assist him or her in arresting without warrant anyone who has
committed or is found committing any offence, a person so
called upon is justified in assisting unless the person knows that
there is no reasonable ground for believing that the person to be
arrested has committed the offence.
27. Arrest of persons found committing certain
crimes - A person is justified in arresting without warrant:
(a) any person whom the person finds committing any
offence against this Act for which the offence is
punishable by imprisonment; or
(b) any person whom the person finds by night
committing any offence against this Act.
28. Arrest of person believed to be committing crime by
night - A person is protected from criminal responsibility for
arresting without warrant any person whom he or she finds by
night in circumstances affording reasonable grounds for
believing that that person is committing an offence against this
Act.
29. Arrest after commission of certain crimes - Where any
offence against this Act has been committed, a Constable who
believes, on reasonable grounds, that any person has committed
that offence is protected from criminal responsibility for
arresting that person without warrant, whether or not that person
committed the offence.