Section 169: Supplying prisoner with instrument for escape
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169. Supplying prisoner with instrument for escape
Toute personne qui aura fourni Any person who supplies a prisaux détenus, ou cherché à introd- oner with, or endeavours to introuire dans les prisons, des instru- duce into a prison, any instrument,
ments ou toutes choses propres à or anything calculated to facilitate
favoriser l’évasion, sera punie d’une the escape of a prisoner, shall be
peine d’emprisonnement qui punished by imprisonment for a term
n’excèdera pas 2 ans. not exceeding 2 years.
[S. 169 amended by s. 8 (b) of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f. 6 December 2008.]
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