Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person (the first person ) commits an offence if:
(a) the first person knows that another person (the escapee ) has escaped from a place where the other person was held in criminal detention; and
(b) the first person harbours, maintains or employs the escapee; and
(c) the detention was lawful federal criminal detention.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
(2) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(c) element of the offence.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code .