Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 349
349. (1) A police officer shall only have such powers as are
vested in him by law and to the extent authorised by law and in this
provision the word law has the same meaning assigned to it in
article 124 of the Constitution .
Omission of
precaution,
formality or
requirement not
a bar to
admissibility of
evidence.
(2) The omission of any precaution, formality or requirement
prescribed under this Title shall be no bar to proving, at the trial, in
any manner allowed by law, the facts to which such precaution,
formality or requirement relates.
Definitions.
Amended by:
XI.1900.54.
Substituted by:
III.2002.74.
Amended by:
L.N. 274 of
2007;
L.N. 246 of
2013;
Amended by:
IV .2014.18;
XXVIII.2021.5;
XXXVII.2025.5.
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