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22 Penalties for assisting escape from prison, etc.E+W
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(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 [ten 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 Prison Act 1952) that is to say, subsection (3) of section one hundred and twenty-two of the Army Act 1955, subsection (3) of section one hundred and twenty-two of the Air Force Act 1955 and subsection (3) of section eighty-two of the Naval Discipline Act 1957, references to the said section thirty-nine shall be construed as including references to subsection (2) of this section.]
[(2A)The reference in subsection (2) to a person who has been sentenced as mentioned there includes—
(a)a person on whom a custodial sentence within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 2006 has been passed (anywhere) in respect of a service offence within the meaning of that Act;
(b)a person in respect of whom an order under section 214 of that Act (detention for commission of offence during currency of order) has been made. ]
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