CO129-551-5 Asylums Amendment Ordinance 1935 24-1-1935 - 29-5-1935 — Page 18

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Medical Officer of the prison to be of

unsound mind. 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

asylum.

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 under-

going 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