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If at the expiration of his sentence, such prisoner were certified by two medical
practitioners to be still of unsound mind, he could then continue to be detained in the esylum.
3. The amendment introduced by Ordinance No. 1 of 1935 provides that this power of removal to an asylum shall apply not only to persons undergoing sentence but also to remand prisoners, detention prisoners and persons
admitted to the house of detention as vagrants. The Secretary of State is advised that there is some doubt whether this provision should be applicable to such classes of untried prisoners who, it has been suggested, should come up
for trial in the ordinary way, and if unfit to plead and stand their trial, should then be sent to the asylum by the judge.
4. The new amending Ordinance also permits the transfer to an asylum of any prisoner whom the medical Officer of the prison considers
likely
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