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MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 2001 (NO. 94 OF 2001) - SECT 32

Power to pursue suspect onto private property

Where –
(a) a police officer reasonably believes that a person has committed an offence under this Act; and
(b) the person flees from the police officer's presence while the police officer, or another police officer, is trying to arrest the person or exercise another power under this Act in relation to the person; and
(c) the police officer, or another police officer, immediately pursues the person and the pursuit continues without interruption; and
(d) during the pursuit the person enters a private residence or another place that is not a public place –
the pursuing police officer may, without warrant and using no more force than is reasonably necessary for the purpose, enter the private residence or other place notwithstanding that it is not a public place.



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