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CONSTABULARY (IRELAND) ACT 1839 - SECT 24

Witnesses summoned to attend police inquiries shall be privileged from arrest, &c.

24. All witnesses duly summoned by the inspector general or deputy inspector
general, or person or persons nominated at any time by the said lord
lieutenant to inquire, pursuant to the provisions of the said Acts, into any
charges or complaint preferred against any person appointed thereunder of any
neglect or violation of duty in his office, and to report thereon, shall,
during their necessary attendance at such inquiry, and in going to and
returning from the same, be privileged from arrest, and shall, if unduly
arrested, be discharged by the court out of which the writ or process issued,
or if such court be not then sitting, then by any judge of the [High Court of
Justice in Northern Ireland], upon its being made to appear to such court or
judge, by an affidavit in a summary way, that such witness was arrested in
going to or returning from or attending upon such inquiry; and all persons so
duly summoned as aforesaid who shall not attend at such inquiry, or attending
shall refuse to be sworn, or, being sworn, shall refuse to give evidence or to
answer all such questions as may be legally demanded of them, shall forfeit
and incur such penalty, not exceeding five pounds, as the said inspector
general or deputy inspector general, or person or persons holding such
inquiry, shall direct, and in default of payment thereof such person so
offending shall and may be imprisoned for such period, not exceeding one
month, as such inspector general, or deputy inspector, or person or persons
holding such inquiry, may direct and adjudge; ....

Ss.2531 rep. by 1851 c.85 s.4; SLR 1874 (No. 2); SLR 1875





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