SUMMARY OFFENCES.
No. 1 of 1845.
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29. It shall be lawful for any police constable to stop and detain, until due inquiry can be made, any person whom, and any horse, cart, or carriage, or any other animal or thing which, he finds employed in removing the furniture of any house or lodging, between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., or whenever such constable has good grounds for believing that such removal is made for the purpose of evading the payment of rent.
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30. It shall be lawful for any police constable to take into custody without warrant any person who is charged by any other person with committing any aggravated assault, in every case in which he has good reason to believe that such assault has been committed, and although not within view of such constable, and that by reason of the recent commission of the offence a warrant could not have been obtained for the apprehension of the offender.
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31.-(1) When any person having charge of any horse, cart, carriage, or boat, or any other animal or thing, is taken into the custody of any police constable under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for any constable to take charge of such horse, cart, carriage, or boat, or such other animal or thing, and to deposit the same in some place of safe custody as a security for payment of any penalty to which the person having had charge thereof may become liable, and of any expenses necessarily incurred for taking charge of and keeping the same.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom the case is heard to order such horse, cart, carriage, or boat, or such other animal or thing, to be sold for the purpose of satisfying such penalty and reasonable expenses, in default of payment thereof, in like manner as if the same had been subject to be distrained, and had been distrained, for the payment thereof.
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32. Every person taken into custody by a police constable without a warrant, except a person detained for the mere purpose of ascertaining his name and residence, shall be forthwith delivered into the custody of the constable in charge of the nearest police station, in order that such person may be secured until he can be brought
* As amended by No. 51 of 1911.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 51 of 1911.
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