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CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 162 Person unlawfully at large

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 162

Person unlawfully at large

A person who—

        (a)     in accordance with a permission given under a law of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory, leaves a correctional centre, lockup or another place of lawful detention where the person is detained, in custody or detained during pleasure in relation to an offence against a law of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory; and

        (b)     fails, without reasonable excuse, to return to that correctional centre, lockup or place in accordance with that permission;

commits an offence.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 5 years or both.