Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 163

    (1)     A person who—

        (a)     is an officer of a correctional centre, lockup or other place of lawful detention, a constable or a Commonwealth officer; and

        (b)     is charged for the time being with the custody or detention of another person (including a person detained during pleasure) in respect of an offence against a law of the Territory, a State or another Territory; and

        (c)     wilfully or negligently permits that other person to escape from that custody or detention;

commits an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

    (2)     A constable or a Commonwealth officer who wilfully or negligently permits a person who has been lawfully arrested in respect of an offence against a law of the Territory, a State or another Territory to escape from that arrest commits an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.

    (3)     In this section:

"Commonwealth officer"—see the Crimes Act 1914

(Cwlth), section 3.

"constable"—see the Crimes Act 1914

(Cwlth), section 3.