Execution of warrant

(1) Every warrant of apprehension may be issued and executed on a Sunday. (2) The police officer, or the marshal, executing the warrant shall, before making the arrest, inform the person to be arrested that there is a warrant for his apprehension, unless there is reasonable cause for abstaining from giving that information on the ground that it is likely to occasion escape, resistance or rescue. (3) Subject to the proviso in sub-section (5), it shall not be necessary for the police officer or the marshal executing the warrant to have it in his possession, but if he has it, he shall, on request, show it to the person arrested or to be arrested. (4) Every person arrested on the warrant shall be brought before a magistrate, or before the court or a judge, as the case may be, as soon as is practicable after he is so arrested. (5) Any police officer, or the marshal, authorised to execute the warrant may, for the purpose of executing it, either with or without assistance from any other person or persons, break open and enter any house, building or enclosed place, if admittance cannot otherwise be obtained, 107 Provided that in that case he shall be in possession of the warrant, and before doing so he shall, as far as practicable, notify his possession of the warrant.