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Deputy Inspector General of Police or any Divisional Superintendent are substituted

therefor

(d) the words

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Captain Superintendent" in the second line of sub-section (5) are repealed and the words " Inspector General of Police" are substituted therefor ;

(e) the words "Captain Superintendent or (as the case may be) a Deputy Superintendent" in the second and third lines of sub-section (6) are repealed and the words "Inspector General of Police, or (as the case may be) the Deputy Inspector General of Police, or a Divisional Superintendent, Superintendent ' are substi- tuted therefor,

10. Sub-section (2) of section 26 of the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following sub-section of Ordinance is substituted therefor :-

4 & 5

8. 22,

No. 11 of 1900,

(3) Whenever any person so apprehended s. 26 (2). Geo. 5, c. 58, without a warrant is brought to the officer in charge of any police station, it shall be lawful for such officer to inquire into the case and, unless the offence appears to such officer to be of a serions nature, to discharge the person upon his entering into a recognizance with or without sureties for a reasonable amount to appear before a magistrate at the time and place named in the recognizance, but where such person is retained in custody he shall be brought before a magistrate as soon as practi- cable. Every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and shall be liable to the same pro- ceedings of estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a magistrate.

s. 45.

s. 26 (4) in Ordinance

1900.

11. The following sub-section is inserted in the Police Insertion Force Ordinance, 1900, immediately after sub-section (3) of new of section 26 :-

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(4) If, on a persou being taken into custody No. 11 of Geo. 5, c. 86, as aforesaid, it appears to the officer in charge of the police station that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, he may discharge the said person on his entering into a recognizance, with or without sureties for a reasonable amount, to appear at such police station and at such time as is named in the recognizance, unless he previously receives a notice in writing from the officer in charge of the police station that his attendance is not required and any such recognizance may be enforced as if it were a recognizance for the appearance of the said person before a magis-

trate.

12. The following section is inserted in the Police Insertion of Force Ordinance, 1900, immediately after section 26 :— new section

26A in

Power of

arrest.

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26A. Any warrant lawfully issued for appre- Ordinance hending any person for any purpose may be No. 11 of executed by any officer of police at any time 1900. Geo. 5, c. 86, notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession at the time, but the warrant shall, on the demand of the person apprehended, be shown to him as soon as practicable after his

s. 44.

arrest.

Amendment

13. Section 28 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, amended by the repeal of the words "Captain Superinten- of Ordinance dent or a Deputy Superintendent" in the second and No. 11 of third lines of paragraph (3) and by the substitution of the 1900, s. 28. words "Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police or a Divisional Superintendent” there- for.