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Criminal Justice Act 1961

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Version Superseded: 28/03/2009

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22 Penalties for assisting escape from prison, etc.E+W

F1(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2)If any person knowingly harbours a person who has escaped from a prison or other institution to which the said section thirty-nine applies, or who, having been sentenced in any part of the United Kingdom or in any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man to imprisonment or detention, is otherwise unlawfully at large, or gives to any such person any assistance with intent to prevent, hinder or interfere with his being taken into custody, he shall be liable—

(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both;

(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding [F2ten years], or to a fine, or to both.

(3)In the following enactments (which make provision for the application of sections thirty-nine to forty-two of the M1Prison Act 1952) that is to say, subsection (3) of section one hundred and twenty-two of the M2Army Act 1955, subsection (3) of section one hundred and twenty-two of the M3Air Force Act 1955 and subsection (3) of section eighty-two of the M4Naval Discipline Act 1957, references to the said section thirty-nine shall be construed as including references to subsection (2) of this section.

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