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KIR-2005-L-80035
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Title_of_text
Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2005 (No. 13 of 2005).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Kiribati
Subjects (Classification)
Criminal and penal law
Adopted on (Date of text)
2005-12-29
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
The amendment to section 15 of the Criminal Procedure Code seeks to empower police officers for the purpose of preventing or detecting commission of offence to enter without warrant and board any vessel and may search and may break open any receptacle, and upon discovery of the person suspected to have committed an offence, or is involved in the commission of the offence or upon discovery of a victim of the offence committed or likely to be committed may take possession of that person involved in the commission of the offence, or a victim of the offence, and may also detain the person who has committed or likely to commit an offence against the victim, or in whose care or custody the victim of the offence being committed or likely to be committed is found. The police officer needs to consult his or her immediate senior officer before exercising the power under this section.
Amended Text region
Amended text(s)
1977 (KIR-1977-L-70699)
Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 17) revised edition 1977.
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Act on-line
Author
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)
Publisher
University of the South Pacific School of Law
URL
http://www.paclii.org/ki/legis/num_act/cpa2005268/
File
KIR80035.pdf (PDF)