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Removal and arrest of offenders in the Park.
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7.—(1) If any person in the Park and within the view of a park constable does any act which is an offence under any section of this Act or any bye-law made under this Act, or is in contravention of any such bye-law, such park constable, if in uniform, may do both or either of the following things, that is to say:—
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(a) demand from such person his name and address, or
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(b) order such person to leave the Park.
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(2) If any such person as aforesaid refuses to give his name or refuses to give his address to a park constable upon demand by such park constable as aforesaid, or gives a name or address which is known to or reasonably suspected by the park constable to be false or fictitious, the park constable may without warrant arrest and take into his custody such person.
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(3) If any such person as aforesaid, on being so required as aforesaid, refuses or fails to leave the Park, any park constable may either remove such person from the Park by force or may without warrant arrest and take into custody such person.
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(4) Whenever a park constable arrests any person under this section he shall forthwith bring and deliver such person into the custody of a police constable to be dealt with according to law.
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(5) Every person who on being required by a park constable acting under this section to give his name and address, refuses to give his name or refuses to give his address, or gives a false or fictitious name or address, or who on being ordered by a park constable acting under this section to leave the Park, refuses or fails to leave the Park, or having left or been removed from the Park returns thereto on the same day, shall be guilty of an offence under this section, and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
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(6) In addition to any other power vested in him by law, a member of the Gárda Síochána on duty in the Park shall have and may exercise the powers conferred on park constables by this section.
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