{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-prisoners-removal-act-1869/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-prisoners-removal-act-1869/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/10",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-prisoners-removal-act-1869",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prisoner in legal custody during removal.",
  "text": "Every prisoner shall, from the time of his leaving his prison in one colony to the time of his reaching his prison in the other colony, be deemed to be in the legal custody of the person or persons empowered to remove him, and to be subject to the same restraint, and, in the event of misbehaviour, to the same punishment, as if he had continued in prison, and as if the person or persons empowered to remove him were the gaoler or gaolers of such prison; and if he escape or attempt to escape from such custody, such prisoner, and every person aiding or attempting to aid him in such escape, shall be subject to the same punishment as if such escape or attempt to escape were an escape or attempt to escape from prison.\nA prison shall mean any place of confinement or any place where the prisoners undergo punishment.\nAny person punishable under this section may be tried and punished either in the colony from which the prisoner is being removed, or in the colony to which he is being removed; and the law applicable to such person shall be the law of the colony in which he is tried.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/10/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:56.876000+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}