SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4The Scheduled Offences

PART ISubstantive Offences

Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953

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Offences under the following provisions of the M1Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, subject to note 2 below,—

(a)

section 25 (being unlawfully at large while under sentence);

(b)

section 26 (escaping from lawful custody and failing to surrender to bail);

(c)

section 27 (attempting to break prison);

(d)

section 28 (breaking prison by force or violence);

(e)

section 29 (rescuing or assisting or permitting to escape from lawful custody persons under sentence of death or life imprisonment);

(f)

section 30 (rescuing or assisting or permitting to escape from lawful custody persons other than persons under sentence of death or life imprisonment);

(g)

section 32 (causing discharge of prisoner under pretended authority);

(h)

section 33 (assisting prisoners to escape by conveying things into prisons).