Laws of Saint Lucia Criminal Code Cap.3.01 49 Revision Date: 31 Dec. 2005 may, if that other person has notice or believes that such warrant or other legal process is in force against him or her, may use such force as is reasonable for his or her arrest, detention, or recapture, and may kill that other person if that other person cannot otherwise be arrested, detained, or retaken by any other means even though the offence was not committed by the other person, or no such offence has in fact been committed. 31. ARREST, ETC., OTHER THAN FOR INDICTABLE OFFENCE A person who has authority, by warrant or other legal process, or under the provisions of any enactment, to arrest, detain or search another person otherwise than for an indictable offence, may use such reasonable force as is necessary in the circumstance, if the other person has notice or believes that the force is used by virtue of any such authority. 32. 33. BONA FIDE ASSISTANT AND CORRECTIONAL OFFICER (1) Where a person, who is duly authorised to execute a warrant to arrest, arrests a person whom he or she believes in good faith and on reasonable and probable grounds is the person named in the warrant, he or she shall be protected from criminal responsibility to the same extent and subject to the same provisions of this Code, as if the person arrested is the person named in the warrant. (2) If a person who is called upon to assist in an arrest under subsection (1) believes that the person whose arrest he or she is called upon to assist is the person in respect of whom the warrant was issued, he or she and the correctional officer who is required to receive and detain the person, shall be protected to the same extent and subject to the same provisions of this Code, as if the person arrested is the person named in the warrant. BONA FIDE EXECUTION OF DEFECTIVE WARRANT OR PROCESS (1) Subject to subsection (2), the person who acts under a warrant or process which is bad in law on account of a defect in

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