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Chapter XI · False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice

223. Escape from confinement negligently suffered by a public servant and facilitating or enabling any terrorist act, etc.

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(1)

Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to keep in confinement any person charged with or convicted of any offence, or lawfully committed to custody, negligently suffers such person to escape from confinement, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine or with both.

Penal Code 139

(2)

Whoever commits an offence under subsection (1) to facilitate or enable any terrorist act or organized criminal activity shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of twice as long as the maximum term for which he would have been liable on conviction for that offence, and shall also be liable to whipping.

Report

Chapter XII

Offences Relating to Coin and Government Stamps

Chapter XIII

Offences Relating to Weights and Measures

Chapter XIV

Offences Affecting the Public Health, Safety, Convenience, Decency and Morals

Chapter XV

Offences Relating to Religion

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Offences Relating to Documents and to Currency Notes and Bank Notes

Chapter XIX

Criminal Breach of Contracts of Service

Chapter XX

Offences Relating to Marriage

Chapter XXI

Defamation

Chapter XXII

Criminal Intimidation, Insult and Annoyance

Chapter XXIII

Attempts to Commit Offences