The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

CRIMINAL CODE SS, 546-548 177
PART VIII-PROCEDUltPE
CHAPTER LVIII-ARREST
est w ~ t Warrant ~ ~ ~ generally. t When an offence is such that the
may be arrested without warrant generally:-
(a) It is lawful for a police officer who believes on reasonable
grounds that the offence has been committed, and that any
person has committed it, to arrest that person without
warrant, whether the offence has been actually committed
or not, and whether the person arrested committed the
offence or not:
(b) It is lawful for any person who is called upon to assist
a police officer in the arrest of a person suspected of having
committed the offence, and who knows that the person calling
upon him to assist is a police officer, to assist him, unless
he knows that there is no reasonable ground for the
suspicion:
(c) It is lawful for any person who finds another coimmitting
the offence to arrest him without warrant:
(d) If the offence has been actually committed, it is lawful for
any person who believes on reasonable grounds that another
person has committed the offence to arrest that person
without warrant, whether that other person has committed
the offence or not:
(e) It is lawful for any person who finds another by night, under
such cir~~~mstan~s as to afford reasonable grounds for
believing that he is committing the offence, and who does
in fact so believe, to arrest him without warrant:
(f) It is lawful for a police officer who finds any person lying
or loitering in any place by night, under such circumstances
as to afford reasonable grounds for believing that he has
committed or is about to commit the offence, and who does
in fact so believe, to arrest him without warrant.
Arrest wit rrmt in Cases. When it is provided with
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may be arrested without warrant
subject to certain conditions, the provisions of the last preceding section
apply to the offence in question, subject to those conditions.
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rd the aircraft,
and for persons acting with his authority to arrest or cause to be
arrested without warrant any person whom he finds committing, or
whom on reasonable grounds he suspects of having committed, or of
having attempted to commit, or of being about to commit, an offence
on or in relation to or affecting the use of the aircraft and for that
purpose to use such force as he or the person arresting believes, on
reasonable grounds, to be necessary and is reasonable under the
circurns tances.
Inserted by Act of 1964, No. 14, s. 17.
548, Arrest of Persons Found ~~~~i~~~ Bences. (1) It is lawful for
a justice or police officer to arrest without warrant any person whom he
finds commiting any indictable offence or committing any simple oEence
with respect to which it is provided that a person found committing it
may be arrested by a police officer without warrant.
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