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(d) in order to prevent the commission by that person of a criminal offence, or if he dies as the result of a lawful act of war (3) It shall be sufficient justification for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section in any case to which that subsection applies if it is shown that the force used did not exceed that which might lawfully have been used in the circumstances of that casc under the law in force immediately before the appointed day. lon to 1 1 67. (1) No person shall be deprived of his personal liberty save as may be authorized by law. (2) No law shall authorize any person to be deprived of his liberty save in the following cases, that is to say- (a) in consequence of his unfitness to plead to a criminal charge; (b) in execution of the sentence or order of a court, whether in Rhodesia or elsewhere, in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been convicted; (c) in execution of the order of a court of record in Rho- desia punishing him for contempt of that court or of a court inferior to it: (d) in execution of the order of a court made in order to secure the fulfilment of an obligation imposed on him by law (including any African customary law); (e) for the purpose of bringing him before a court in exe. cution of the order of a court or an officer of a court; (f) upon reasonable suspicion of his having committed or being about to commit a criminal offence; (g) under the order of a court or with the consent of his parent or guardian, for the purpose of his education or welfare during a period beginning before he attains the age of twenty-one years and ending not later than the date when he attains the age of twenty-three years: (h) for the purpose of preventing the spread of an infec- tious or contagious disease: (i) if he is, or is reasonably suspected to be of unsound mind, addicted to drugs or alcohol, or a vagrant, for the purpose of his care, treatment or rehabilitation or the protection of the community: (j) for the purpose of preventing the unlawful entry of that

person into Rhodesia, or for the purpose of effecting

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