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Criminal Procedure Act 1972

PART III - ARREST OF OFFENDERS AND PREVENTION OF OFFENCES

11 Mode of making arrest

(1) In making an arrest the person making it shall actually touch or confine the body of the person to be arrested, unless there be a submission to the custody by word or action.

(2) A person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime or in effecting, or assisting in, the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large.

(3) The last preceding subsection shall replace the rules of the common law on the question when force used for a purpose mentioned in that subsection is justified by that purpose.

12 Entry to arrest person under warrant

For the purpose of arresting a person under a warrant of arrest, any person to whom such warrant is addressed may enter, if need be by force, and search any place where that person is or where he, with reasonable cause, suspects him to be.

Keywords

Arrest
Request for arrest and surrender
Cooperation under procedures of national law



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