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MISCELLANEOUS TRANSFERRED EXCISE DUTIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 58



58.(1) If any person (in this section referred to as "the offender") is found
committing, or is suspected upon reasonable grounds of having committed, any
offence which under this Act is punishable with imprisonment or with a fine of
#50 or more, the following provisions shall have effect

(a)an authorised officer may require the offender to do either or both of the
following things

(i)desist from such offence;

(ii)give his name and address;

(b)if the offender, after being so required, wilfully continues such offence
or fails or refuses to give his name and address, or gives a name and address
which the authorised officer has reason to suspect is not the offender's true
name and address, the authorised officer may arrest the offender;

(c)where the offender is arrested under this section by an authorised officer
who is not a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, that officer shall as
soon as possible deliver the offender into the custody of a member of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary to be dealt with according to law.

(2) Where it is not practicable to arrest the offender as aforesaid at the
time of the commission of the offence, or where the offender having been then
or subsequently arrested for that offence has escaped, he may be arrested by
an authorised officer at any time before the expiration of the period within
which proceedings may be instituted against him and may be proceeded against
accordingly.

(3) The provisions of this section are in addition to and not in derogation of
any other provision of this Act or of any enactment or any rule of law
authorising the arrest of offenders.


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