POWERS OF POLICE.
ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT. PRIVATE MEMBER'S AMENDMENT. (By Telegraph—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. In introducing the Police Ofl'ences Amendment Bill, Mr. Black (Motueka) explained that its purpose was to amend the 1926 Act, which empowers a constable to arrest a person on suspicion of having no lawful means of support, and to take him before a magistrate when the onus of disproving the charge would be laid on the accused. Mr. Black concluded his explanation by stating that the bill raised the question of the burden of proof and the kindred question of arrest by warrant, because in its present state the Act provided that an arrested person had to show by his own or other evidence that he honestly obtained money or property found in his possession. The bill was read a first time without further discussion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 181, 2 August 1929, Page 15
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