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Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1906, s. 15 and

substitution

of new

section.

Repeal of

Ordinance

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(2) This section shall only apply where the medical officer in question is or is deemed to be a registered medical practitioner.

(3) Any order for the removal of such a patient shall be in the prescribed form.

8. Section 15 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is re- pealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

Prisoners of unsound mind.

15.-(1) If any person is ordered by the Supreme Court to be detained as an insane person until His Majesty's pleasure shall be known, the Governor may by warrant under his hand direct such person to be removed to. an asylum and to be detained there until His Majesty's pleasure shall be known.

(2) If any person who has been imprisoned under any sentence of imprisonment is certified by the medical officer of the prison in which such person is confined to be of unsound mind, the Governor may by warrant under his hand order such person to be removed to an asylum and to be detained there until the expiration of his sentence or until further order.

(3) If any person who has been removed to an asylum under the provisions of sub-section (2) shall, in the opinion of the medical practi- tioner in charge of the asylum, become of sound mind before the expiration of his sentence, the Governor may by warrant under his hand direct such person to be removed to a prison and to be detained there until the expiration of bis sentence. The period of detention in the asylum shall be reckoned as part of the

sentence.

(4) If any person who has been removed to an asylum under the provisions of sub-sec- tion (2) certified by two medical practi-

tioners to be still of unsound mind at the expiration of his sentence, such person shall be detained in an asylum until released by the Governor or discharged upon the authority of the medical practitioner in charge of such asylum or until he be otherwise released in due course of law. Every such certificate shall be in the prescribed form.

9. The Schedule to the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is

No. 6 of 1906, repealed.

Schedule.

Conimence-

ment.

10. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the

day of

1927.

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Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this Ordinance is to define more clearly the procedure requisite for the admission of patients into imental asylums, and to ensure, so far as possible, that the removal of a patient to an asylum shall not take place without notice to the patient's relatives.

2. Section 2 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance, Ordinance No. 6 of 1906, a new section 4 which gives the Governor in Commeil power to make regulations for various purposes connected with the objects of the Asylums Ordinance.