Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsArrest without warrant
| 6. Any peace officer may, notwithstanding anything in any written law, arrest without warrant any person who in the opinion, of such peace officer is under the influence of liquor and is committing any offence under sections 2 and 3, of this Act or under those provisions of the Penal Code specified in Column 1 of the Schedule hereto and may, in effecting such arrest, use such force as may be reasonable in the circumstances. |