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Crimes Act 1961

Crimes affecting the administration of law and justice - Escapes and rescues

118: Assisting escape of prisoners of war or internees

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"Helping prisoners of war escape is against the law"

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If you help a prisoner of war or an internee escape from detention in New Zealand, you can go to prison for up to 7 years. You must not assist someone who is a prisoner of war or an internee to escape from the place where they are being held. You also must not help them escape if they have been allowed to be outside on parole in New Zealand.

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Part 6Crimes affecting the administration of law and justice
Escapes and rescues

118Assisting escape of prisoners of war or internees

  1. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who knowingly and wilfully—

  2. assists any prisoner of war detained in New Zealand, or any person interned in New Zealand, to escape from any place in which he or she is for the time being detained; or
    1. assists any such prisoner or person as aforesaid, suffered to be at large on his or her parole in New Zealand, to escape from the place where he or she is at large on his or her parole.

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      • 1908 No 32 s 140