(b) furnishes to the peace officer a name or address which the peace officer, upon reasonable grounds, suspects to be false, such person may be arrested and detained for a period not exceeding twelve hours until the name and address so furnished have been verified. (3) Any person who, when called upon under this section to furnish his name and address, fails to do so, or furnishes a false or incorrect name and address, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level four or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001.] 27 Arrest by private person for certain offences committed in his presence (1) Any private person in whose presence anyone commits or attempts to commit an offence mentioned in the First Schedule, or who has knowledge that any such offence has been recently committed, is authorized to arrest without warrant or forthwith to pursue the offender, and any other private person to whom the purpose of the pursuit has been made known is authorized to join and assist therein. (2) Any private person is authorized to arrest without warrant any other person whom he believes on reaso nable grounds to have committed an offence and to be escaping from, and to be freshly pursued by, one whom such private person believes on reasonable grounds to have authority to arrest the escaping person for that offence. (3) When it is provided by any enactment with respect to an offence that the offender may be arrested without warrant by any private person particularly specified, any such specified person may arrest the offender without warrant. 28 Arrest by private person in case of affray Any private person is authorized to arrest without warrant any person whom he sees engaged in an affray in order to prevent such person from continuing the affray, and to deliver him over to a police officer to be dealt with according to law. 29 Owners of property may arrest in certain cases The owner, lawful occupier or person in charge of any property on or in respect of which any person is found committing an offence, or any person authorized by such owner, lawful occ upier or person in charge, may arrest without warrant the person so found. 30 Arrest by private person for certain offences on reasonable suspicion Any private person may without warrant arrest any other person upon reasonable suspicion that such other person has committed any offence specified in the First Schedule. 31 Arrest of persons offering stolen property for sale Where anyone may without warrant arrest another for committing an offence, he may also arrest without warrant any person who offers to sell, pawn or deliver to him any property which on reasonable grounds he believes to have been acquired by such person by means of any such offence. 31A Arrest by persons in charge of ship, boat or aircraft (1) The commander or person in charge of any ship, boat or aircraft may without warrant arrest any person whom he knows or on reasonable grounds believes to have committed, to be committing or to be about to commit an offence aboard the ship, boat or aircraft. (2) A commander or person in charge of any ship, boat or aircraft may authorise any member of the crew of the ship, boat or aircraft or any passenger aboard the ship, boat or aircraft to assist him in arresting any person in terms of subsection (1), and the member of the crew or the passenger so authorised shall have the same power to effect the arrest as the commander or person in charge of the ship, boat or aircraft. [Section inserted by Act No. 23 of 2004] 32 Procedure after arrest without warrant (1) For the purposes of this section— “court day” means any day except a Sunday or a public holiday. (2) Subject to subsections (3a) (3b) and (3c), a person arrested without warrant shall as soon as possible be brought to a police station or charge office and, if not released by reason that no charge is to be brought against him, may be detained for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours unless he is brought before a judge or magistrate upon a charge of any offence and his further detention is ordered by that judge or magistrate or a warrant for his further detention is obtained in terms of section thirty-three. [Subsection substituted by section 44 of Act No. 1 of 2002 and amended by section 3 of Act No. 14 of 2004.] (3) If the period referred to in subsection (2) expires— (a) on a day which is not a court day or on any court day after four o’clock in the afternoon, the said period shall be deemed to expire at four o’clock in the afternoon of the court day next succeeding that day; or (b) on any court day before four o’clock in the afternoon, the said period shall be deemed to expire at four o’clock in the afternoon of that court day: Provided that this subsection shall not in any case be construed as extending the period referred to in subsection (1) beyond a period of ninety-six hours.

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