[F133C Escape from confinement.F2U.K.
Every person subject to this Act who escapes from arrest, prison or other lawful custody (whether naval or not), shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment authorised by this Act.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 33A-33C inserted by Armed Forces Act 1971 (c. 33), ss. 22, 78(4)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F2Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions