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Fugitive Persons Act (No. 29 of 1969) - Sect 14

Custody

14.
(1) Any fugitive person remanded or committed to custody under section 9 shall be committed to a like institution as a person charged with an offence before the Court of committal in its capacity is a Magistrate's Court.
(2) If any fugitive person who is in custody by virtue of a warrant under this Act escapes out of custody, he may be retaken in any part of Ceylon in like manner as a person escaping from custody under a warrant for his arrest issued in that part in respect of an offence committed therein.
(3) Where a fugitive person, being in custody in any part of Ceylon whether under this Act or otherwise, is required to be removed in custody under this Act to another part of Ceylon and is so removed by sea or by air, he shall be deemed to continue in legal custody until he reaches the place to which he is required to be removed.
(4) A warrant under section 11 for the return of a fugitive person to any designated country shall be sufficient authority for all persons to whom it is directed and all police officers to receive that person, keep him in custody and convey him into the jurisdiction of that country.


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