Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 48

  (1)   A person (the first person ) commits an offence if:

  (a)   the first person knows that another person (the escapee ) has escaped from a place where the other person was held in criminal detention; and

  (b)   the first person harbours, maintains or employs the escapee; and

  (c)   the detention was lawful federal criminal detention.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 5 years.

  (2)   Absolute liability applies to the paragraph   (1)(c) element of the offence.

Note:   For absolute liability, see section   6.2 of the Criminal Code .