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Person suffering from delirium tremens may be detained in asylum for observation.
Medical practitioners
No. 6 of 1906.
ASYLUMS.
11. Any person taken to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from delirium tremens, or developing delirium tremens while in such hospital may, if the Superintendent considers it to be necessary or desirable, be removed to an asylum and be there detained under the provisions of this Ordinance relating to detention for observation.
12. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent a medical practitioner in charge of an asylum from delivering any person detained therein under the provisions of this Ordinance to the care of any party or parties to whom in his opinion it is expedient to deliver such person for custody.
Delivery of persons of unsound mind to persons
Appeal.
Limitation of action.
Prisoner ordered by Supreme Court to be detained during King's pleasure or becoming of unsound mind while under imprisonment may be removed to asylum.
13. Every order of a magistrate made under sections 9, 10 or 16 shall be subject to an appeal by or on behalf of the person ordered to be detained thereunder to a judge sitting in court or in chambers.
14. No action shall be brought against any medical practitioner or officer of police or against any person whomsoever for anything done in good faith and with reasonable cause in pursuance of the powers conferred by this Ordinance.
15. If any person is ordered by the Supreme Court to be detained as an insane person during the King's pleasure, or if any person under imprisonment in any place of confinement shall become of unsound mind, the Governor may by warrant under his hand direct that such person be removed to any asylum named in such warrant there to be detained as an insane person during the King's pleasure or until the expiration of the sentence under which such person shall have been imprisoned. If such 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 him shall seem proper.
Detention of prisoners after expiration of sentence.
16. If at the expiration of the sentence of any prisoner detained in an asylum under section 15 he is still of unsound mind, such prisoner may on the written order of a magistrate be detained in such asylum until discharged by order of the Governor or otherwise released in due course of law.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.