Section 27: Irregularity in connection with arrest or confinement.

The National Security Guard Act, 1986Central Act · Act 47 of 1986

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—

(a) unnecessarily detains a person in arrest or confinement without bringing him to trial, or fails to bring his case before the proper authority for investigation; or

(b) having committed a person to Security Guard custody fails without reasonable cause to deliver at the time of such committal, or as soon as practicable, and in any case within forty-eight hours thereafter, to the officer or other person into whose custody the person arrested is committed, an account in writing signed by himself of the offence with which the person so committed is charged,

shall, on conviction by a Security Guard Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.

Where this provision sits

Act	The National Security Guard Act, 1986
Section	27
Marginal note	Irregularity in connection with arrest or confinement.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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