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Who may cause person of unsound mind to be detained.
Detention for observation.
Procedure where person detained found to be of unsound mind before expiration of period of detention for observation.
Medical certificate counter-signed by Magistrate to be a valid order for detention in an asylum.
Extension of period of observation.
No. 6 of 1906.
ASYLUMS.
such asylum at all times and make such enquiry 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.
7. Any medical practitioner, or officer of police or any private person, having reason to believe that a person is of unsound mind may on the written order of any Magistrate or Justice of the Peace cause such person to be conveyed, using such force as may be necessary, to an asylum.
8. It shall be lawful for any medical practitioner in charge of any asylum to detain under observation for 7 days any person taken to such asylum under the provisions of section 7 or section 11.
9. If before the expiration of the said 7 days, two medical practitioners shall be of opinion that the person detained under observation is in fact a person of unsound mind, they shall each sign a certificate in form A in the schedule and forward it to a Magistrate who shall countersign it if it shall appear to him that such person is of unsound mind.
Every such certificate when so countersigned shall constitute a valid order of such Magistrate for the detention in an asylum of the person named therein as being of unsound mind. Thereupon he may be detained in any asylum until released by order of the Governor or until discharged upon the authority of the medical practitioner in charge of such asylum, or until he be otherwise released in due course of law: Provided that the certificate required by this section shall not be countersigned by such Magistrate unless it be 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.
10. In the event of two medical practitioners certifying in form B in the schedule that it is necessary to detain a person in an asylum for purposes of observation for a longer period than 7 days but not exceeding 14 days in all, such certificate shall be forwarded to a Magistrate and be countersigned by him if he
*As amended by No. 51 of 1911.
†As amended by No. 12 of 1912.
§As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 13 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912. As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912, No. 13 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912.