Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978

Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953

10Offences under the following provisions of the [1953 c. 18 (N.I.).] Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, subject to note 2 below,—

(a)section 25 (being unlawfully at large while under sentence);

(b)section 26 (escaping from lawful custody and failing to surrender to bail);

(c)section 27 (attempting to break prison);

(d)section 28 (breaking prison by force or violence);

(e)section 29 (rescuing or assisting or permitting to escape from lawful custody persons under sentence of death or life imprisonment);

(f)section 30 (rescuing or assisting or permitting to escape from lawful custody persons other than persons under sentence of death or life imprisonment);

(g)section 32 (causing discharge of prisoner under pretended authority);

(h)section 33 (assisting prisoners to escape by conveying things into prisons).