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The language of sub-section (1), which deals with per- sons ordered to be detained until His Majesty's pleasure shall be known, is assimilated to that of section 76 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No. 9 of 1899.
Sub-section (2) deals with prisoners who are discovered during the imprisonment to be of unsound mind. The corresponding passage in scetion 15 of the principal Ordi- nance deals only with prisoners who become of unsound mind during their imprisonment.
Sub-section (3) is similar in terms to part of the repealed section and deals with the case where a person of unsound mind becomes sane during the term of the sentence.
Sub-section (4) deals with the case where the person confined is still of unsound mind at the expiration of his sentence. This is not dealt with in the principal Ordi- hance. If two medical practitioners certify in the pre- scribed form that the person in question is still of unsound mind at the expiration of his sentence be will be detained in an asylum until he is released by the order of the Governor or discharged by the medical practitioner in charge of the asylum, or otherwise released in due course of law.
9. Section 8 of this Ordinance repeals the Schedule to the principal Ordinance because, as stated above, the forms will in future he prescribed by Order in Council.
10. Section 10 postpones the commencement of the Ordinance in order to allow time for forms to be pres- cribed.
30th May, 1927.
J. HI. KEMP,
Allorncy Ceneral,
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