Larceny.
Apprehension of offenders.
57. (1) Any person found committing any offence, punishable either on indictment or on summary conviction, against this Ordinance except an offence under section 49 may be immediately apprehended without a warrant by any person and forthwith taken, together with the property, if any, before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
(2) Any person to whom any property is offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he has reasonable cause to suspect that any offence has been committed against this Ordinance with respect to such property, shall, if in his power, apprehend and forthwith take before a magistrate the person offering the same, together with such property, to be dealt with according to law.
(3) Any police officer may take into custody without warrant any person whom he finds lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place during the night, and whom he has good cause to suspect of having committed or being about to commit any felony against this Ordinance, and shall take such person as soon as reasonably may be before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law. [56]
Search warrants.
[CAP. 210
Arrest warrant. c. 50, s. 41.
without
6 & 7 Geo. 5,
24 & 25 Vict.
c. 96, s. 103
and 104.
warrants.
6 & 7 Geo. 5,
c. 50, s. 42.
58. (1) If it is made to appear by information on oath before a magistrate that there is reasonable cause to believe that any person has in his custody or possession or on his premises any property whatsoever, with respect to which any offence, punishable either on indictment or on summary conviction, against this Ordinance has been committed, the magistrate may grant a warrant to search for and seize the same.
(2) (a) Any police officer may, if authorized in writing by the Commissioner of Police, enter any house, shop, warehouse, yard, or other premises, and search for and seize any property he believes to have been stolen, and, where any property is seized in pursuance of this section, the person on whose premises it was at the time of seizure or the person from whom it was taken shall, unless previously charged with receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen, be summoned before a magistrate.
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