18. Power to arrest without warrant
Feedback & supportAny police officer or employment agency inspector may arrest without warrant any person whom he or she reasonably believes to be carrying on an employment agency or performing any work or activity mentioned in section 6(2) without a licence.
employment agency
“employment agency” means any agency or registry carried on or represented as being or intended to be carried on (whether for the purpose of gain or reward or not) for or in connection with the employment of persons in any capacity, but does not include any registry set up by an employer for the sole purpose of recruiting persons for employment on the employer’s own behalf;
An employment agency inspector making an arrest without warrant must, without unnecessary delay and subject to subsection (3), take or send the person arrested before a Magistrate’s Court.
An employment agency inspector must not detain in custody a person arrested without warrant for longer than is reasonable in the circumstances, and such period must not exceed 48 hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate’s Court.
Any person who has been arrested by an employment agency inspector may be released on bail, or on that person’s own bond.[19