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Stock Theft Act, 1959 (Act No. 57 of 1959)

9. Arrest and search without warrant

 

(1) Any person may, without warrant, arrest any other person upon reasonable suspicion that such other person has committed the offence mentioned in section two or four.

 

(2) Whenever any justice of the peace, policeman, or owner, lessee or occupier of land reasonably suspects that any person has in or under any receptacle or covering or in or upon any vehicle any stock or produce in regard to which an offence has been committed, such justice of the peace, policeman, owner, lessee or occupier may without warrant search such receptacle or vehicle and remove such covering, and if he thereupon finds any stock or produce in regard to which he reasonably suspects an offence to have been committed, he may without warrant arrest such person and seize such vehicle or receptacle and shall as soon as possible convey such person and the stock or produce so found and the vehicle or receptacle so seized to a police station or charge office.