TERRORISM (PREVENTATIVE DETENTION) ACT 2005 - SECT 23

TERRORISM (PREVENTATIVE DETENTION) ACT 2005 - SECT 23

23—Use of force

        (1)         A police officer must not, in the course of taking a person into custody or detaining a person under a preventative detention order, use more force, or subject the person to greater indignity, than is necessary and reasonable—

            (a)         to take the person into custody; or

            (b)         to prevent the escape of the person after being taken into custody.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not however prevent the lawful use of force in self-defence or defence of another.