THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 16, 1927.
3. Section 7 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Repeal of repealed and the following section is substituted there- Ordinance
for:-
Removal to asylum for observation.
No. 6 of 1906. s. 7, und substitution
7.—(1) Upon the application of any person of new who has reason to believe that some other section. person is of unsound mind, it shall be lawful for any magistrate or justice of the peace to make an order authorizing the removal to an asylum, for the purpose of detention and obser- vation during a period not exceeding seven days from and including the date of the order, of the person alleged to be of unsound mind.
(2) Any application for such an order shall be made in the prescribed form.
(3) The order made by the magistrate or justice of the peace shall be in the prescribed form.
(4) Every such order shall have the effect of authorizing the applicant, and every public officer, with such assistance in each case ar may be desirable, to use such force as may be necessary in order to remove to the asylum the person alleged to be of unsound mind.”
(5) Except in case of necessity, no such order shall be made until an attempt has been made by the applicant to communicate with some relative of the person in question if any such relative can be found in the Colony.
4. Section 8 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Amendment amended by the insertion of the words "from and includ- of Ordinance ing the date of the order" immediately after the word No. 6 of 1906. "days" in the second line thereof.
8. 8.
5. Section 9 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Amendment amended as follows :-
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No. 6 of 1906,
(a) by the repeal of the words Form A in the s. 9. Schedule" in the fourth and fifth lines thereof
and by the substitution therefor of the words "the prescribed form"; and
A
(b) by the repeal of the words “ Schedule. Form A.'
in the marginal note thereto.
6. Section 10 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Repeal of repealed and the following section is substituted there- Ordinancé for :--
No. 6 of 1906; s. 10, and Extension of period of
of now detention for
section. observation.
10. If while a person is lawfully under substitution detention in an asylum for the purpose of observation, two medical practitioners certify in the prescribed form that it is necessary to detain such person in the asylum for a further period for the purpose of observation, and if such certificate is countersigned by a magis- trate or justice of the peace, it shall be lawful to detain such person in the asylum for the purpose of observation for the further period specified in such certificate: Provided that no such extension shall be for a longer period than seven days and that not more than two such extensions shall be lawful: Provided also that if before the end of any such exten- sion two medical practitioners shall be of opinion that the person in question is of un- sound mind, the procedure laid down in section 9 shall be followed as if the said medical practitioners had formed such opinion during the initial period of detention.
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