72 Power of magistrates to issue warrants for arrest of escaped prisoners and mental patients
Criminal Justice Act 1967 (1967 c 80) | Legislation

72  Power of magistrates to issue warrants for arrest of escaped prisoners and mental patients

(1)     On an information in writing being laid before a justice of the peace for any area in England and Wales or Northern Ireland and substantiated on oath, or on an application being made to a sheriff, magistrate or justice of the peace in Scotland, alleging that any person is—

(a)     an offender unlawfully at large from a prison or other institution to which the Prison Act applies in which he is required to be detained after being convicted of an offence; or

(b)     a convicted mental patient liable to be retaken under [section 18, 38(7) or 138 of the Mental Health Act 1983], [section 28, 44 or 121 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984] or [Article 29, 45(6) or 132 of the Mental

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