The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

66 SS, 142-147 CRIMINAL CODE
142. Aiding Prisoners to Escape. Any person who-
(1) Aids a prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from
lawful custody; or
(2) Conveys anything or causes anything to be conveyed into a
prison with intent to facilitate the escape of a prisoner;
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
seven years.
143. Escape by Prisoner. Any person who, being a prisoner in lawful
custody under sentence after conviction for an indictable offence, escapes
from such custody is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with
hard labour for three years.
The offender may be tried, convicted, and punished, notwithstanding
that at the time of his apprehension or trial the term of his original
sentence has expired.
Any person who, being an officer of a prison or
charged, for the time being, with the custody
of a prisoner or a person under arrest upon a charge of an offence,
wilfully permits him to escape from custody is guilty of a misdemeanour,
and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
ed Prisoners. Any person who harbours, maintains,
who is, to his knowledge, an offender under
sentence of such a kind as to involve deprivation o€ liberty, and illegally
at large, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for
two years, or to a fine of four hundred dollars.
Decimal currency reference substituted pursuant to section 7 of Decimal
Currency Act of 1965.
escaahg Insme mom. Any person who---
(1) Rescues any person during his conveyance as an insane
person to a hospital or reception house for the insane, or to
a house licensed under the laws relating to insane persons
for the reception of patients, or to a prison, or rescues any
person during his confinement as an insane person in any
such place; or
(2) Being in charge of a person during his conveyance as an
insane person to any such place, wilfully permits him to
escape from custody; or
(3) Being a superintendent of, or person employed in, any such
place, wilfully permits a person confined therein as an insane
person to escape therefrom; or
(4) Conceals any such person as aforesaid who has, to his
knowledge, been rescued during such conveyance or con-
finement, or has, to his knowledge, escaped during such
conveyance, or from such confinement;
is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard
labour for three years.
147. Removing, etc., Property under Lawful Seizure. Any person who,
when any property has been attached or taken under the process or
authority of any court of justice, knowingly, and with intent to hinder or
defeat the attachment, or process, receives, removes, retains, conceals,
or disposes of, such property, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable
to imprisonment with hard labour €or three years.