Offenders against this Act may in certain cases be arrested by Police Officers

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Chapter XX APPEALS FROM CERTAIN ORDERS

Statutory text

(1) Any police officer may arrest any person who commits in his view any offence against this Act or against any regulation or bye-law made under this Act, if the name and address of such person be unknown to him and if such person, on demand, declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false.
(2) No person so arrested shall be detained in custody after his true name and address are ascertained or, without the order of a Magistrate, for any longer time, not exceeding at the most twenty-four hours from the arrest, than is necessary for bringing him before a Magistrate competent to take cognizance of his offence.

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