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The Prisons Act, 1894

( ACT NO. IX OF 1894 )

Chapter X

OFFENCES IN RELATION TO PRISONS

Power to arrest for offence under section 42
43. When any person, in the presence of any officer of a prison, commits any offence specified in the last foregoing section, and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and residence, or gives a name of residence which such officer knows, or has reason to believe, to be false, such officer may arrest him, and shall without unnecessary delay make him over to a Police-officer, and thereupon such Police-officer shall proceed as if the offence had been committed in his presence.

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