Prisons.
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entrusted
with duties
of sheriff.
5. All such duties in relation to the execution of any sentence or judgment imposed or awarded by any court or judge exercising criminal jurisdiction as attached to the office of sheriff on the 19th day of December, 1882, and in respect of which no other provision has since been made shall be attached to the office of the Commissioner.
2 of 1884, s. 2.
Schedule.
6. The sites and buildings and prisons known as Prisons. Stanley Prison, Victoria Remand Prison, Lai Chi Kok Female Prison, the Prison Ward of Queen Mary Hospital, and the Prison Ward of Kowloon Hospital, shall be prisons duly set apart under section 3.
24 of 1950,
and removal
7. (1) A prisoner sentenced to imprisonment or committed to prison on remand pending trial or otherwise may be lawfully confined in any prison to which this Ordinance applies.
(2) Prisoners shall be confined in such prisons as the Commissioner may direct and may on like direction be removed therefrom during the term of their imprisonment to any other prison.
4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58, s. 17.
Schedule.
(3) The Commissioner on being satisfied that a prisoner is suffering from a disease and cannot properly be treated in a prison, or that he should undergo and desires to undergo a surgical operation which cannot properly be performed in a prison, or that a female prisoner is pregnant and that a birth may be imminent, may order that the prisoner be taken to a Government hospital or other suitable place for the purpose of treatment or such operation or such birth, and while absent from the prison in pursuance of such order the prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody.
(4) When the attendance of any prisoner at any place is required for the purposes of any enactment, the Commissioner shall arrange for his transfer in custody to and from such place, and during any such transfer the prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody.
(5) Prisoners of unsound mind shall be dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Mental Hospitals Ordinance (Cap. 136).
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