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Section 14: Refusal to give name and residence.

RepealedTHE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965, Sierra Leone

(1) Where any person, other than a person liable to be arrested without a warrant, who has been accused ofcommitting an offence refuses on demand of a constable to give his name and place of residence, or gives a name or place of residence which the constable has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested by the constable in order that his name and place of residence may be ascertained. (2) When the true name and place of resident have been ascertained he shall be released on his executing a bond, with or without sureties, to appear before a court if so required. (3) Should the true name and place of residence of that person be not ascertained within twenty-four hours from the time of arrest, or should he fail to execute the bond, or if so required, to furnish sufficient sureties, he shall forthwith be brought before the nearest Court having jurisdiction.

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