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(1) Any police officer may arrest any person who commits in his view any offence against this Act or against any rule, regulation or bye-law, if the name and address of such person be unknown to him, and if such person, on demand, declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false.\br@s (2) No person so arrested shall be detained in custody after his true name and address are ascertained or, without the order of a Magistrate, for any longer time, not exceeding twenty-four hours from the arrest, than is necessary for bringing him before a Magistrate competent to take cognizance of his offence.\br@s
(1) Any police officer may arrest any person who commits in his view any offence against this Act or against any rule, regulation or bye-law, if the name and address of such person be unknown to him, and if such person, on demand, declines to give his name and address or gives a name and address which such officer has reason to believe to be false.\br<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>@s (2) No person so arrested shall be detained in custody after his true name and address are ascertained or, without the order of a Magistrate, for any longer time, not exceeding twenty-four hours from the arrest, than is necessary for bringing him before a Magistrate competent to take cognizance of his offence.\br<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>@s<br>