CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 262 Suppression of riot by magistrates
CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 262
Suppression of riot by magistrates262 Suppression of riot by magistrates
It is lawful for a justice to use or order to be used such force as the justice believes, on reasonable grounds, to be necessary in order to suppress a riot, and is reasonably proportioned to the danger which the justice believes, on reasonable grounds, is to be apprehended from its continuance.