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Criminal Code Act 1983
115Rescuing mentally ill persons
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115 Rescuing mentally ill persons
(a) rescues any person during his conveyance as a mentally ill
person to a hospital or other institution for the mentally ill or to
a custodial correctional facility, or rescues any person during
his confinement as a mentally ill person in any such place;
(b) being in charge of a person during his conveyance as a
mentally ill person to any such place permits him to escape
from custody;
(c) being a superintendent of, or person employed in, any such
place permits a person confined therein as a mentally ill
person to escape therefrom; or
(d) conceals any such person as aforesaid who has, to his
knowledge, been rescued during such conveyance or
confinement or has, to his knowledge, escaped during such
conveyance or from such confinement,