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Crimes
2013, No. 10
30. Arrest during flight-(1) A person is protected from
criminal responsibility for arresting without warrant any person
whom he or she believes, on reasonable grounds, to have
committed an offence against this Act, and to be escaping from
and to be freshly pursued by any one whom he or she believes,
on reasonable grounds, to have lawful authority to arrest that
person for the offence.
(2) This section shall apply whether or not the offence has in
fact been committed, and whether or not the arrested person
committed it.
31. Force used in executing process - Where any person is
justified, or protected from criminal responsibility, in executing
or assisting to execute any sentence, warrant, or process, or in
making or assisting to make any arrest, that justification or
protection shall extend and apply to the use by him or her of such
force as may be necessary to overcome any force used in
resisting such execution or arrest, unless the sentence, warrant, or
process can be executed or the arrest made by reasonable means
in a less violent manner:
PROVIDED that, except in the case of a constable or a person
called upon by a constable to assist him or her, this section shall
not apply where the force used is intended or likely to cause
death or grievous bodily harm.
32. Preventing escape or rescue-(1) Where any person is
lawfully authorised to arrest or to assist in arresting any other
person, or is justified in or protected from criminal responsibility
for arresting or assisting to arrest any other person, that authority,
justification, or protection, as the case may be, shall extend and
apply to the use of such force as may be necessary:
(a) to prevent the escape of that other person if he or she
attempts to avoid arrest; or
(b) to prevent the escape or rescue of that other person
after his or her arrest,
unless in any such case the escape or rescue can be prevented by
reasonable means in a less violent manner: