Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013
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Power of member of Garda Síochána to arrest without warrant. |
39.—(1) Where a person is seen or found committing, or is reasonably suspected of being engaged in committing or having committed, an offence referred to in section 36 (4)(b) or 52 (2), a member of the Garda Síochána may arrest the person without warrant. | |
(2) Where a person is arrested by a member of the Garda Síochána under subsection (1), the person shall be taken by the member to a Garda Síochána station and may be detained there or arrested and detained there in accordance with section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 and, accordingly, the reference in subsection (2) (inserted by section 9 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 ) of that Act to “an offence to which this section applies” is to be read as including a reference to an offence referred to in section 36 (4)(b) or 52 (2). |