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Concealment of patient, etc.
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251.—Where any person—
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(a) conceals a patient in a mental institution, or
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(b) induces or assists the escape or attempted escape of a patient in a mental institution, or
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(c) induces or assists a patient who—
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(i) is absent on trial or parole from a mental institution, or
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(ii) has been removed for treatment or for the benefit of his health from a mental institution, or
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(iii) has been boarded out by a mental hospital authority,
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to escape or leave the place where he is maintained while absent on trial or parole, under treatment, or for the benefit of his health, or while boarded out, or
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(d) harbours or conceals a patient who has so escaped,
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such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
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