Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 46A

             (1)  A person (the first person ) commits an offence if:

                     (a)  another person (the prisoner ) is in criminal detention; and

                     (b)  the first person conveys a thing into a prison, lock-up or other place of criminal detention; and

                     (c)  the first person does so with the intention of facilitating the escape of the prisoner from the prison, lock-up or other place; and

                     (d)  the detention is lawful federal criminal detention.

Penalty:  Imprisonment for 5 years.

             (2)  Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(d) element of the offence.

Note:          For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .