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Establish- ment and management
5. The Governor mav declare that certain institutions or places shall be asylums for the detention, custody and care of persons of unsound mind, and the Governor in Council of asylums. may make regulations for the management and conduct of asylums.
6. The Governor may appoint fit and proper persons to Visitors of
asylums. be visitors of any such asylums. Such visitors shall be at liberty to enter any such asylum at all times and make such inquiry or examination therein as may be deemed necessary and shall make such reports to the Colonial Secretary as may be required by order of the Governor.
asylum for observation.
7.-(1) Upon the application of any person who has Removal to reason to believe that some other 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 observation 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 as 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
any such relative can be found in the Colony.
if
for observa-
8. It shall be lawful for any medical practitioner in Detention charge of any asylum to detain under observation for seven tion. days from and including the date of the order any person taken to such asylum under the provisions of section 7 or section 11.
where person
9. If, before the expiration of the said seven days, two Procedure medical practitioners shall be of opinion that the person detained detained under observation is in fact a person of unsound found to be mind, they shall each sign a certificate in the prescribed of dere form and forward it to a magistrate who shall countersign expiration of it if it shall appear to him that such person is of unsound period of
mind.
of unsound
detention for observation.
certificate
magistrate
for detention
Every such certificate when so countersigned shall Medical constitute a valid order of such magistrate for the detention counter- in an asylum of the person named therein as being of signed by unsound mind. Thereupon he may be detained in any asylum to be a until released by order of the Governor or until discharged valid order upon the authority of the medical practitioner in charge of in an such asylum, or until he is otherwise released in due course asylum. of law Provided that the certificate required by this section shall not be countersigned by such magistrate unless it is established to his satisfaction that neither of the medical practitioners signing such certificate is the husband or wife or a near relative, or a partner, or an assistant, of the person to whom it refers.
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