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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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“It's against the law to help prisoners of war or people held in camps escape from where they are kept.”

If you help a prisoner of war or an interned person in New Zealand escape from where they are being held, you can go to jail for up to 7 years. This also applies if you help a prisoner of war or interned person escape when they are allowed to be out on parole. You must know what you’re doing and do it on purpose for this to apply to you.

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Part 6 Crimes 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.

      Compare
      • 1908 No 32 s 140