POLICE FORCE.
No. 11 of 1900.
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(2) The Governor shall have power to grant distinctive badges or medals to members of the force or members of a crew for long and faithful or extraordinary services, and to withdraw the same if the recipient is subsequently guilty of misconduct.
PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS.
26.-(1) It shall be lawful for any officer of police to apprehend any person who may be charged with, or whom he may reasonably suspect of being guilty of, any offence without any warrant for that purpose, and whether he has seen such offence committed or not.
Officer of police may apprehend person charged with or suspected of committing an offence;
(2) Whenever any person so apprehended is brought without warrant to the officer in charge of any police station, it shall be lawful for such officer, in a case of any offence which is not a felony, if he deems it proper to do so and if no magistrate is in attendance at his office, to take bail by recognizance, with or without sureties, in a sufficient sum, without fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such person shall appear for examination before a magistrate at some place to be specified in the recognizance, being the earliest time then next after when a magistrate will be in attendance at his office; and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and liable to the same proceedings for estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a magistrate.
[cf. No. 3 of 1890, s. 27.]
(3) The respective names, residences, and occupations of the person so apprehended and of his surety or sureties, if any, entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be laid before the magistrate before whom the person apprehended is to appear; and if he does not appear when called upon at the time and place mentioned in the recognizance, the magistrate shall forthwith estreat the recognizance: Provided that, if the person apprehended appears and makes application for a postponement of the hearing of the charge against him, the magistrate may enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he may think proper, and when the matter has been heard and determined, such recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward.
* As amended by No. 31 of 1923 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
POLICE FORCE.
No. 11 of 1900.
1103
(2) The Governor shall have power to grant distinctive badges or medals to members of the force or members of a crew for long and faithful or extraordinary services, and to withdraw the same if the recipient is subsequently guilty of misconduct.
PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS.
26.-(1) It shall be lawful for any officer of police to Ollicer of apprehend any person who may be charged with, or whom he police may apprehend may reasonably suspect of being guilty of, any offence with- person out any warrant for that purpose, and whether he has seen charged with such offence committed or not.
or suspected of committing an offence;
*
(2) Whenever any person so apprehended is brought with- bail. out warrant to the officer in charge of any police station, it
[cf. No. 3 of shall be lawful for such officer, in a case of any offence which 1890, s. 27.] is not a felony, if he deems it proper to do so and if no magistrate is in attendance at his office, to take bail by recognizance, with or without sureties, in a sufficient sum, without fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such person shall appear for examination before a magistrate at some place to be specified in the recognizance, being the earliest time then next after when a magistrate will be in attendance at his office; and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and liable to the same proceedings for estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a magistrate.
(3) The respective names, residences, and occupations of the person so apprehended and of his surety or sureties, if any, entering into such recognizance, together with the condition thereof and the sums respectively acknowledged, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be laid before the magistrate before whom the person apprehended is to appear; and if he does not appear when called upon at the time and place mentioned in the recogni- zance, the magistrate shall forthwith estreat the recognizance: Provided that, if the person apprehended appears and makes application for a postponement of the hearing of the charge against him, the magistrate may enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he may think proper, and when the matter has been heard and determined, such recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward.
* As amended by No. 31 of 1923 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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