Section 49Permitting escape of person in custody

s. 49

49. Permitting escape of person in custody Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say:- (a) when in command of a guard, piquet, patrol or post, releases without proper authority, whether wilfully or without reasonable excuse any person committed to his charge or refuses to receive any prisoner or person so committed; or (b) wilfully or without reasonable excuse allows to escape any person who is committed to his charge, or whom it is his duty to keep or guard; shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable, if he has acted wilfully, to suffer long imprisonment; and if he has not acted wilfully, to suffer short imprisonment.