(12 of 1972.)
(Cap. 280.)
(4) Before sentencing an offender to
preventive detention, the court shall consider
any report or representations which may be
made to the court by or on behalf of the
Commissioner of Prisons on the offender's
physical and mental condition and his suitabi-
lity for such a sentence.
(5) A copy of any report or represen-
tations in writing made to the court by the
Commissioner of Prisons for the purposes of
subsection (4) shall be given by the court to
the offender or his counsel or solicitor.
(6) In this section and section 109J
"court" means the Supreme Court and the
District Court;
"custodial sentence" means a sentence of
-imprisonment, a detention order under the
Detention Centres Ordinance and a sentence
of detention in a training centre under
the Training Centres Ordinance.
(Cap. 5.)
(7)
The District Court shall have power
to pass a sentence of preventive detention,
notwithstanding the provisions of section 36
of the District Court Ordinance.
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