Repealed1984 Revised EditionCurrent version · 1984 Revised EditionSee versions on Attorney General's Chambers(opens the publisher’s site)
Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part VIII · Miscellaneous Provisions
Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part VIII · Miscellaneous Provisions
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
When a person is seen or found committing or is reasonably suspected of being engaged in committing an offence against this Act, any inspector or other officer appointed under this Act or any police officer may without warrant stop and detain him and, if his name and address are not known, may arrest him without warrant.
Any person who obstructs or impedes an inspector or other officer appointed under this Act or any police officer in the execution of this Act or of any regulation made thereunder, or assists in any such obstructing or impeding, may be apprehended by such inspector or other officer without warrant.
A person arrested under this section shall be taken with all practicable speed before the Court of a Magistrate.
Nothing in this section shall take away or abridge any power or authority that a police officer would have had if this section had not been enacted.
Presumption.