Criminal Code (Cap. 9)
Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 152
152. Any prisoner who shall be guilty of escape from any place
of confinement or of punishment, or from a hospital where he is
under treatment or observation, or from the custody of the pers on
or persons charged with his custody, shall, when the escape has
been effected by violence on the person, or with breaching the
places mentioned, be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a
term from two years to four years saving any other punishment t o
which he may be subject under any other provision of this Code or
any other law.
In this article ''prisoner'' ha s the same meaning assigned to
it in article 151.
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Negligence or
imprudence of
person charged
with the custody,
etc., of person
escaping.
Amended by:
XXI.1971.15;
XLIX.1981.4.
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