Hong Kong Ordinances

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ORDINANCE - SECT 101A

Use of force in making arrest, etc.

(1) A person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the
prevention of crime or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of
offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large.

(2) Subsection (1) shall replace the rules of the common law on the question
when force used for a purpose mentioned in the subsection is justified by that
purpose. (Added 5 of 1971 s. 10) [cf. 1967 c. 58 s. 3 U.K.]