S3 criminal law act 1967 makes reference to circumstances in which someone is “unlawfully at large.” What specifically does this mean?
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"Unlawfully at large" simply means that a person who should be in jail is not.
The Criminal Justice Act 1948 formerly contained a definition, but this section has been repealed.
- Persons unlawfully at large. (1) Any person who, having been sentenced to imprisonment, corrective training, preventive detention or Borstal training, or ordered to be detained in a detention centre, or having been committed to a prison or remand centre, is unlawfully at large...
I could not find the current definition, but it is almost certainly similar. (Does the UK have some kind of a legal code, rather than just individual acts of Parliament, many of which have been amended repeatedly?)
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