Power to arrest without warrant

Public Rights of Access to Protected Monuments

Power to arrest without warrant.

1. (1) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person who is against whom a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been guilty of an offence under clause
   • (a) of section 19 or sub-section
2. (2) of section 20.
3. (2) Every person so arrested shall be produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a magistrate.