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shall forthwith estreat the recognizance: Provided that if the person apprehended appears and makes application for postponement of the hearing of the charge against him, the magistrate may enlarge the recognizance to such further time as he may think proper, and when the matter has been heard and determined such recognizance shall be discharged without fee or reward.

(3) If, upon a person being taken into custody as aforesaid, it appears to the officer in charge of the police station or a police officer authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, he may discharge the said person on his entering into a recognizance, with or without sureties, for a reasonable amount to appear at such police station and at such time as is named in the recognizance, unless he previously receives a notice in writing from the officer in charge of the police station or a police officer authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner that his attendance is not required; and any such recognizance may be enforced as if it were a recognizance for the appearance of the said person before a magistrate.

(4) Whenever any person apprehended with or without warrant is a member of His Majesty’s Forces it shall be lawful for the officer in charge of a police station if he deems fit to hand over such person to the custody of the appropriate authority of His Majesty’s Forces for detention by such authority; but where such person is so detained in custody he shall be produced before the officer in charge of a police station when required and, if charged, before a magistrate as soon as practicable and in any case not later than forty eight hours from the time of apprehension.

52. Any warrant lawfully issued for any purpose may be executed by any police officer at any time notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession at the time, but the warrant shall, on the demand of the person affected, be shown to him as soon as practicable after its execution.

53. It shall be lawful for any police officer to stop and search and if necessary to arrest and detain for further inquiries any person whom he may find in any street or other public place, or on board any vessel, or in any conveyance, at any hour of the day or night, who acts in a suspicious manner or whom he may suspect of having committed or of being about to commit or of intending to commit, any offence.