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 .