s 40 Power of arrest
40.—(1) An authorised officer may —(a) arrest without warrant any person whom he or she has reason to believe to be committing or to have committed an offence under section 6, 7, 12 or 15; and (b) search the person arrested and seize anything which he or she reasonably considers to be evidence of the commission of the offence. (2) A woman or girl must not be searched except by a woman. (3) Where the authorised officer makes an arrest without warrant, he or she must, without unnecessary delay, bring the person arrested before a Magistrate. (4) The authorised officer must not detain in custody a person arrested without a warrant for a longer period than is reasonable under the circumstances of the case. (5) The period that a person arrested without a warrant may be detained in custody must not exceed 48 hours, excluding the time for any necessary journey to the Magistrate’s Court.[27