They make the arrest at the first opportunity within a reasonable...and stop there. If you read the rest, I don't think it has that implication: If you read it as I would see it read, it would be that they make the arrest at the first opportunity within a reasonable...and then we continue:
reasonable time after the offence is committed and they believe on reasonable grounds that it is not feasible in the circumstances for a peace officer to make the arrest.
We are past (a), so we are obviously in a second type of a situation.
It would be limiting. It would be sending a message that if you're not able to do it right now, the new law permits an extension. You have an extended period of another situation that can happen, as long as you're in a reasonable time and it is at the first opportunity.
You don't say, I'll go get two of my friends and we'll do the arrest because I don't feel comfortable doing it on my own, or something like that. It's really sending...you want to do it.
In the literature that you're going to prepare for people who could be interested in this new law, stress again that first we don't want to let citizens loose and tell them to please make a citizen's arrest. Second, if you're going to do it later than the immediate moment that you spotted the contravention, do it in a reasonable time, but do it at the first occasion. Don't start thinking, well, maybe I'm not ready right now, maybe I'll wait for a bit, until later on.
That's what I'm aiming at by saying that.
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