Laws of Saint Lucia
Criminal Code
Cap.3.01
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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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