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Crimes Act 1900
162Person unlawfully at large
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162 Person unlawfully at large
(a) in accordance with a permission given under a law of the
Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory,
leaves a correctional centre, lockup or another place of lawful
detention where the person is detained, in custody or detained
during pleasure in relation to an offence against a law of the
Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory; and
(b) fails, without reasonable excuse, to return to that correctional
centre, lockup or place in accordance with that permission;