Miscellaneous
C249C1 Persons unlawfully at large.
C3C41
Any person who, having been sentenced to F1imprisonment or custody for life or ordered to be detained in F9youth detention accomodation or in a young offenders institution, or having been committed to a prison or remand centre, is unlawfully at large, may be arrested by a constable without warrant and taken to the place in which he is required in accordance with law to be detained.
C5C62
Where any person sentenced to F2imprisonment, or ordered to be detained in F10youth detention accomodation or in a young offenders institution is unlawfully at large at any time during the period for which he is liable to be detained in pursuance of the sentence or order, then, unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, no account shall be taken, in calculating the period for which he is liable to be so detained, of any time during which he is absent from the F3place in which he is required in accordance with law to be detained:
Provided that—
C7a
this subsection shall not apply to any period during which any such person as aforesaid is detained in pursuance of the sentence or order or in pursuance of any other sentence of any court F4in the United KingdomF2in a prison or remand centre, in F10youth detention accomodation or in a young offenders institution;
b
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c
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3
The provisions of the last preceding subsection shall apply to a person who is detained in custody in default of payment of any sum of money as if he were sentenced to imprisonment.
F143A
Where—
a
a person is extradited to the United Kingdom from a category 1 territory for the purpose of serving a term of imprisonment or another form of detention mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, and
b
the person was for any time kept in custody in that territory with a view to the extradition (and not also for any other reason),
the Secretary of State shall exercise the power under that subsection to direct that account shall be taken of that time in calculating the period for which the person is liable to be detained.
F143B
In subsection (3A) of this section “category 1 territory” means a territory designated under the Extradition Act 2003 for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act.
C84
For the purposes of this section a person who, after being temporarily released in pursuance of rules made under subsection (5) of section forty–seven of this Act, is at large at any time during the period for which he is liable to be detained in pursuance of his sentence shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large if the period for which he was temporarily released has expired or if an order recalling him has been made by the F7Secretary of Statein pursuance of the rules.
F174ZA
For the purposes of this section a person who, after being temporarily released in pursuance of section 163 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (temporary release from a secure children’s home), is at large at any time during the period for which they are liable to be detained pursuant to their sentence shall be deemed to be unlawfully at large if the period for which they were temporarily released has expired or if they have been recalled under that section.
F134A
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F85
In this section “F11“youth detention accommodation”” means—
a
a young offender institution;
b
a secure training centre;
F15ba
a secure college; or