Paragraph 10
Northern Ireland
Offences under the following provisions of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 subject to note 1 below—
section 25 (being unlawfully at large while under sentence);
section 26 (escaping from lawful custody and failing to surrender to bail);
section 27 (attempting to break prison);
section 28 (breaking prison by force or violence);
section 29 (rescuing or assisting or permitting to escape from lawful custody persons under sentence of death or life imprisonment);
section 30 (rescuing or assisting or permitting to escape from lawful custody persons other than persons under sentence of death or life imprisonment);
section 32 (causing discharge of prisoner under pretended authority);
section 33 (assisting prisoners to escape by conveying things into prisons).
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (25.8.1996) by 1996 c. 22, ss. 59, 62(1), 63(3)(7), Sch. 7 Pt. I