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19. Arrest how made
Feedback & support(1)
In making an arrest, an employment agency inspector making the arrest must touch or confine the body of the person to be arrested unless the person submits to arrest by word or action.
employment agency
Defined · s 2
“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;
(2)
If the person forcibly resists or tries to evade arrest, the employment agency inspector may use all means necessary to effect the arrest.[19A