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Transfer.

may be transferred, for a period not exceeding six months from the date of his first admission to a centre in accordance with such application form;

(i) shall submit himself to such treatment as may from time to time be prescribed by the superintendent of the centre in which he is detained:

(iii) shall obey all lawful orders given to him by the superintendent or by any person authorized by the super- intendent;

(iv) if required by the superintendent shall leave the centre in which he is detained within forty-eight hours of being so required:

(v) may be visited only by such persons as are permitted by the superintendent, and

(vi) if given leave of absence by the superintendent, shall return to the centre in which he was last detained, on the expiry or determination of the period of leave of absence; and (b) an acknowledgment by the person completing the application form that the person named in the application form may be detained against his will in the centre named in the application form or in any other centre to which he may be transferred for a period not exceeding six months from the date of his : first admission to a centre in accordance with such application form and may be forcibly retaken by the superintendent or by any police officer if be absents himself from the centre without the permission of the superintendent or if, having been given leave of absence from a centre by the superintendent. fails to return at the end or determination of the period of absence.

and may contain such other matters as may be prescribed.

8. If it appears to a superintendent that it would be for the benefit of a patient in a centre or of other patients in the centre that be should be transferred to another centre, the superintendent by order may transfer the patient to another centre and, on such transfer, die patient may be detained in the centre to which he was transferred for i the remainder of the period of six months from his first admission as if he had been first admitted to that centre.

9. (1) A superintendent may from time to time permit a patient Absence on

trial. to be absent from a centre on trial or for any other reason which he may consider necessary for such period as the superintendent roay think

proper.

(2) Any absence on trial in accordance with this section shall be subject to such conditions as the superintendent may prescribe.

(3) The superintendent may require a patient who has been permitted to be absent from a centre on trial to return to the centre at any time within the period of six months from the date of his first admission to a centre.

10. Every person admitted into a centre in accordance with the Detention and

recapture. provisions of this Ordinance may be detained therein for a period of

| six months from the date of his first admission to a centre în accord- ance with an application made under section 7 until be be removed or discharged in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and in case of escape may be retaken within twenty-eight days of such escape by the superintendent or by any police officer and conveyed to and received and detained in the centre from which he escaped.

11. (1) As a condition to his reception in a centre, the super- Enforcement intendent, if he is satisfied that the person completing an application of costs. form in accordance with the provisions of section 7 has sufficient means to enable him to pay the costs of treatment of the person named in the application form, may require the person completing the application form to enter into a bond to pay to the Government or to such other person as may be entitled thereto the proper costs of maintenance and treatment of the person named in the application form so long as he is detained in the centre,

(2) A court or magistrate, on the application by or on behalf of such person as may be entitled to recover the costs of the maintenance and treatment of a patient, and on being satisfied that the patient has property which may be applied towards his maintenance and treatment or that any person is legally bound to maintain the patient and has sufficient means to enable him to do so, may make an order for the recovery of the cost of the maintenance and treatment of the patient, together with the cost of the application, out of the property of the patient or from such other person.