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CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 262

Suppression of riot by magistrates

262 Suppression of riot by magistrates

It is lawful for a justice to use or order to be used such force as the justice believes, on reasonable grounds, to be necessary in order to suppress a riot, and is reasonably proportioned to the danger which the justice believes, on reasonable grounds, is to be apprehended from its continuance.



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