{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1953/18",
  "legislation_title": "Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Facilitating escape by conveying things into prison",
  "text": "(1) Any person who with intent to facilitate the escape of a prisoner—\n(a) brings, throws or otherwise conveys anything into a prison,\n(b) causes another person to bring, throw or otherwise convey anything into a prison, or\n(c) gives anything to a prisoner or leaves anything in any place (whether inside or outside a prison),\nis guilty of an offence\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33 substituted (19.12.2008) by Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1216 (N.I. 1)), arts. 1(4), 76; S.R. 2008/472, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1953/18/section/33",
    "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."
}