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Section 86 — Public assistance in arrests

Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.

Amendments
86.Public assistance in arrests

Every person is bound to help a police officer or any other person authorised to make an arrest reasonably demanding histhe person’s aid —

(a)in arresting a person whom the police officer or other person is authorised to arrest;

(b)in preventing a breach of the peace or in preventing any person from damaging any public property; or

(c)in suppressing a riot or an affray.