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Section 79: Public officer flouting claim of illegal detention

Criminal Code · CHAPTER II: OFFENCES BY PUBLIC OFFICERS

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79. Public officer flouting claim of illegal detention Les fonctionnaires publics chargés Any public functionary entrusted de la police administrative ou judiciai- with the administrative or judicial re, et toute personne ayant charge police, or any person having the cusd’un prisonnier, qui auront refusé ou tody of a prisoner, who refuses or négligé de déférer à toute réclamation neglects to pay due regard to any tendant à constater les détentions demand tending to prove illegal or illégales ou arbitraires, soit dans les arbitrary any detention, whether in maisons destinées à la garde des any house destined for the custody détenus, soit partout ailleurs, et qui of persons under detention, or elsene justifieront pas les avoir dénon- where and who does not prove havcées à leurs supérieurs, seront punis ing reported such detention to his des peines portées en la section 77. superior officer, shall be subject to the punishment specified in section 77.

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