(1)  It is the duty of a person executing any process or warrant to have it with him, and to produce it if required.

(2)  It is the duty of a person arresting another, whether with or without warrant, to give notice, if practicable, of the process or warrant under which he is acting, or of the cause of the arrest.

(3)  A failure to fulfil either of the aforesaid duties shall not of itself deprive the person executing the process or warrant or making the arrest, or his assistants, of protection from criminal responsibility, but shall be relevant to the question whether the process or warrant might not have been executed or the arrest made by reasonable means in a less forcible manner.

(4)  Notwithstanding subsection (1) , a police officer may arrest a person, whether or not the police officer has a warrant for the arrest of that person in his or her possession at the time of making the arrest, if the police officer has reasonable grounds for believing that a warrant for the arrest has been issued in relation to that person.

(5)  If a police officer arrests a person under subsection (4) , the police officer must, as soon as practicable –

(a) deliver the arrested person into the custody of a custody officer; and

(b) produce or cause to be produced, or provide or cause to be provided, to the arrested person the warrant or a certified copy of it.

(6)  If an arrested person is delivered into the custody of a custody officer under subsection (5) , it is lawful for the custody officer to detain the arrested person until the warrant or a certified copy of the warrant is produced or otherwise provided to the arrested person.

(7)  The warrant is taken to be executed at the time at which the warrant or certified copy of the warrant is produced or otherwise provided in accordance with subsection (5) to the arrested person.

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(9)  A certified copy of a warrant may be used to execute the original warrant for a period not exceeding 8 hours from the time when the certified copy is produced or otherwise provided.

(10)  If a certified copy of a warrant is sent or otherwise provided to an arrested person by facsimile machine, email or any other means of electronic communication, within the meaning of the Electronic Transactions Act 2000 , the copy of the certified copy received by the arrested person (the received copy ), and any paper copy of the received copy which is printed directly or indirectly from the machine that received the received copy, is taken to be a certified copy of the warrant.

(11)  In this section –

arrested person means a person arrested under subsection (4) ;

certified copy , in relation to a warrant, is a true copy of the warrant that contains a statement –

(a) to the effect that the person sending or otherwise providing the copy has seen the original warrant and that the copy is a true copy of that warrant; and

(b) that is signed by that person;

custody officer means a police officer appointed as a custody officer under section 14(1) of the Criminal Law (Detention and Interrogation) Act 1995 .