THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEB. 23, 1906.
5. Any Officer of the Government Medical Department, Enquiry into or of the Police Force, or any private person, having reason state of mind to believe that a person is of unsound mind may apply in of person writing to a Magistrate that the state of mind of such suspected to
be of un- person be inquired into : Provided that an application from sound mind a private person shall not be entertained unless it is may be accompanied by a certificate from a duly qualified medical made on practitioner that the person so suspected has been under application of Medical his observation and that he believes him to be of unsound Officer or mind.
Officer of Police or on application of a private person if supported by medical certificate.
trate.
6. The Magistrate shall thereupon with as little delay Proceedings as possible cause such person so suspected to be of unsonni thereupon mind (hereinafter called suspected person) to be brought by Magis- before him and shall then, or on some other day to which he may seo TeLSO to adjomu the enquiry, examine the suspected person and may hear evidence to enable him to determine whether such person is or is not of unsound mind and shall adjudicate accordingly. Provided that the Magistrate may in the course of such enquiry renmand the suspected person for further observation for such reasonable time as shall be specified in the order for remand and every suspected person so re- manded shall during such remand be kept in such place as the Governor shall appoint and shall be subject to the observation and inspection of such persons as the Governor may nominate.
7. Any medical officer of a lunatic asylum may admit thereto without au order from a Magistrate any person who is, in his opinion, a person of unsound mind, for the purpose of safe keeping such person therein until he can be brought before a Magistrate for enquiry into his state of mind: Provided that no person shall be so detained in any asylum for a longer period than three days.
Detention
with a view to enquiry.
care and
sent to
8. If any fit relative or friend shall enter into sufficient Relative or security for the proper custody care and maintenance of friend may any person adjudged under this Ordinance to be of unsound undertake mind the Magistrate may order that the person so adjudged custody. shall be placed in his charge and under his control, other otherwise wise the Magistrate shall order such person so adjudged to person of be kept in custody in such place as the Governor shall unsound appoint until the Governor's pleasure shall be known; mind to be whereupon the Governor shall issue his warrant for the an asylum. removal of such person to a lunatic asylum, and shall give sneh further order for the safe custody of such person as to the Governor shall seem fit: Provided that any relative or friend who shall have entered into security as aforesaid may at any time thereafter surrender such person to a Magistrate who shall thereupon order that until the Governor's pleasure be known, and until the Governor's warrant shall have been received such person shall be detained in the place appointed by the Governor for the detention of persons under remand for further observation.
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9. If any person under imprisonment in any place of Prisoners confinement shall become of unsound mind the Governor becoming of may by warrant under his hand direct that such person be unsound remove to a lunatic asylum named in such warrant there may to be detained until the expiration of the sentence under to lunatic which such person may have been imprisoned. If such asylum. person shall become of sound mind before the expiration of his sentence, of which the period of his detention in such asylum shall be reckoned as part, the Governor shall thereupon by warrant under his hand direct such person to be removed back to the place of confinement from which he shall have been taken, or shall give such other order thereon as to the Governor shall seem proper.
10. It shall be lawful for a Magistrate to order any Procedure person removed to a lunatic asylum under the provisions of at expiration the last preceding section who at the date of the expiration of sentence of his sentence is still of unsound mind to be detained in person such asylum until discharged therefrom by order of the unsound Governor.
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