Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act 30. Zimbabwe 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 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 1 of 2002 and amended by section 3 of Act 14 of 2004] (3) Any person who is arrested or detained— (a) for the purpose of bringing him or her before a court; or (b) for an alleged offence; and who is not released must be brought before a court as soon as possible and in any event not later than forty-eight hours after the arrest took place or the detention began, as the case may be, whether or not the period ends on Sunday or a public holiday. [subsection substituted by section 8 of Act 2 of 2016] (3a) Where the person arrested without warrant is charged with any offence referred to in paragraph 10 of the Third Schedule and the judge or magistrate before whom the person is brought in terms of this section is satisfied that there is a reasonable suspicion that the person committed the offence, the judge or magistrate shall order that person’s further detention or issue a warrant for his or her further detention for a period of twenty-one days. [subsections (3a) to (3d) inserted by section 3 of Act 14 of 2004] By Laws.Africa and contributors. Licensed under CC-BY. Share widely and freely. 13