If you arrest someone at night without a warrant, you are protected from getting in trouble if you have good reasons to think they are committing a crime. You must find them at night in a situation that makes you believe they are breaking the law. This protection is part of the Crimes Act 1961, which is a law that outlines what is against the law in New Zealand.
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Every one is protected from criminal responsibility for arresting without warrant any person whom he or she finds by night in circumstances affording reasonable and probable grounds for believing that that person is committing an offence against this Act.
