Lrewarp
IsLANDs.

Arrest and

trial of sns-
pected per-

sons,

12/1951.

10 Previal Larceny (Prevention) No. 6 of 1954,

person to inspect such contents he shall be guilty
of an offence against this Act and shall on summary
conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceed-
ing one hundrea and twenty dollars or to impris-
onment with or without hard latour for any term
not exceeding three months.

16. (1) Any police officer or authorised
person may arrest a suspected person without a
warrant.

(2) As soon as possible after the arrest of a
suspected person, the police officer or authorised
person making the arrest shall bring the suspected —
person, together with any predial produce found
in his possession or under his control which is
reasonably suspected to have been stolen or unlaw-
fully obtained, to a police station.

(8) The provisions of sections 22, 23 and 25
of the Police Act, 1951 shall apply in relation to
any arrest under this section by an authorised
person as it applies to any such arrest by a police
officer.

(4) If the suspected person does not give an
account to the satisfaction of the Magistrate
by what lawful means he came by such pradial

produce, he shall be guilty of an offence against —

this Act and shall on summary conviction thereof
be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred

_and forty dollars or to imprisonment with or

without hard labour for any term not exceeding
six months, and upon a subsequent conviction on
a similar charge, to imprisonment with or without
hard labour for any term not exceeding twelve
months.

(5) Ie any suspected person escapes from
any police officer or authorised person attempting

to arrest him, or lets fall or throws away any

preedial produce reasonably suspected to have been
stolen or unlawfully obtained it shall be lawful
for any Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, upon
application, to issue his warrant for the arrest of
that person, and upon his arrest that person shall
be deemed to have been arrested within the mean-
ing of subsection (1) of this section and may be