Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XI · False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice
212. Harbouring offender
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender with the intention of screening him from legal punishment, shall -
if the offence is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years and fine;
if the offence is punishable with imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years and fine; and
if the offence is punishable with imprisonment not exceeding one year and not to 10 years, shall be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence for a term not exceeding one-fourth part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, fine or both.
In this section, "offence" includes any act committed at any place outside of Brunei Darussalam, which, if committed in Brunei
Darussalam, would be punishable under section 302, 304, 382, 392, 393,
394,395,396,397,398,399,402,435,436,449,450,457,458,459 or 460;
and every such act shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be punishable as if the accused person had been guilty of it in Brunei
Darussalam.
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