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Section 24

Refusal to give name and residence

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 25 of 459
Section 24

(2)

When any person is thus taken before a Magistrate, the

Magistrate may either require him to execute a bond, with or without a surety, for his appearance before a Magistrate if so required, or may order him to be detained in custody until he can be tried.

(3)

When any person in the presence of a police officer or penghulu commits or is accused of committing a non-seizable offence and on the demand of a police officer or penghulu to give his name and residence gives as his residence a place not within Malaysia, he may be arrested by the police officer or penghulu and shall be taken immediately either before the nearest Magistrate who may require him to execute a bond with or without a surety for his appearance before a Magistrate if so required or may order him to be detained in custody until he can be tried, or before a police officer not below the rank of Inspector who may require him to furnish a bond with or without a surety for his appearance before a Court if required.