Section 134

(1) Any person who by force rescues or attempts to rescue from Rescue. lawful custody any other person-

(a) is, if such last-named person is under sentence of death or penal servitude or imprisonment for life, or charged with an offence punishable with death, or penal servitude or imprisonment for life, guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for life; and

(b) is, in any other case, guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

(2) If the person rescued is in the custody of a private person, the offender must have notice of the fact that the person rescued is in such custody.