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Enforcing arrest and detention
Cap. 159, s. 4 · Revised Edition 2020
With regard to the arrest and detention of any person whose arrest is ordered by an expulsion order–
(a) for the purposes of sections 179 to 183 inclusive of the Indictable Procedure Act,
(which relate to the arrest of persons committing indictable offences), that person shall be deemed to have recently committed an indictable offence, and the expulsion order shall be deemed to be a legal process authorising any police officer to arrest and detain that person for an indictable offence;
CAP. 96.
(b) for the purposes of sections 270 and 274 of the Criminal Code (which relate to the rescue,
escape, and harbouring of criminals) that person shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanour punishable on indictment.
CAP. 101.
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