             SANCTUARY (ABOLITION)        [ CAP. 2.       1
CHAPTER 2
 SANCTUARY (ABOLITION) LAW
To abolish sanctuary and local immunity in criminal matters.
(10th April, 1828) *
 Enacted by PROCLAMATION No. VI of 1828.
Short title.
(Abolition) Law.
Local immunity 
abolished.
2. No local privilege, or immunity whatsoever, shall in any
manner operate so as to prevent the due execution of the law in
criminal matters:
Rules for the arrest 
of persons 
suspected of a 
temporal crime 
seeking refuge in 
places heretofore 
considered 
privileged.
Provided, nevertheless, that where any person, who has
committed or is suspected of having committed any temporal crime
or offence, shall seek or be suspected of seeking refuge in any place
heretofore considered as affording sanctuary, it shall be lawful for
any officer of the Executive Police duly authorized to take before a
magistrate for examination or otherwise on a criminal charge any
such person then credibly suspected to be in any such place of
refuge as is hereinbefore described, to demand the said suspected
fugitive at the outer door or gate of the said place of refuge; and if
the suspected fugitive be forthwith given up, the said officer shall
not pass within the said outer door or gate; but, if the suspected
fugitive be not given up upon demand, it shall be lawful for the
Police officer, taking to his aid, if necessary, any other civil or
ecclesiastical officer or officers, or even a military force, to enter
the said place of refuge and to search for the said suspected
fugitive, and, if found, thence to remove him or her, with the least
possible scandal or disturbance.
*Published in Government Gazette No. 896 of the 16th April,1828.
