In this section “offence” includes also any act or omission of which a person is alleged to have been guilty out of Singapore which if he had been guilty of it in Singapore would have been punishable as an offence and for which he is under any law relating to extradition, or otherwise, liable to be apprehended or detained in custody in Singapore, and every such act or omission shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to be punishable as if the accused person had been guilty of it in Singapore.
Section history
Section 216 — Harbouring an offender who has escaped from custody, or whose apprehension has been ordered. If a capital offence. If punishable with imprisonment.
As in force on 12 November 1993.
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Whenever any person convicted of, or charged with an offence, being in lawful custody for that offence, escapes from such custody, or whenever a public servant, in the exercise of the lawful powers of such public servant, orders a certain person to be apprehended for an offence, whoever, knowing of such escape or order for apprehension, harbours or conceals that person with the intention of preventing him from being apprehended, shall be punished in the manner following, that is to say, if the offence for which the person was in custody, or is ordered to be apprehended, is punishable with death, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, and shall also be liable to fine; if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, with or without fine; and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year and not to 10 years, he shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of the imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both.
Exception.—This provision does not extend to the case in which the harbour or concealment is by the husband or wife of the person to be apprehended.