{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1953/18",
  "legislation_title": "Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Rescue or assisting other prisoners.",
  "text": "Every person who—\n(a) rescues any person or assists any person in escaping, or attempting to escape from lawful custody, whether in prison or not, under a sentence of imprisonment for any term less than life … [ or ordered to be detained in a young offenders centre] or after conviction of, and before sentence for, or while in such custody upon a charge for, any offence punishable with imprisonment for a term less than life; or\n(b) being a police officer or constable having any such person in his lawful custody, or being an officer of any prison in which any such person is lawfully confined, voluntarily and intentionally permits him to escape,\nshall be guilty of felony and shall on conviction thereof on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 29 substituted (19.12.2008) for ss. 29, 30 by Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1216 (N.I. 1)), arts. 1(4), 75; S.R. 2008/472, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1968 c. 29 (NI); 1980 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1968 c. 29 (NI)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1953/18/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:41.124962+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."
}