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(2) Any application for such an order shall be made in the prescribed form.

(3) The order made by the magistrate or justice of the peace shall be in the prescribed form.

(4) Every such order shall have the effect of authorizing the applicant, and every publie officer, with such assistance in each case as may be desirable, to use such force as may be necessary in order to remove to the asylum the person alleged to be of misound mind.

(5) Except in case of necessity, no such order shall be made until an attempt has been made by the applicant to communicate with some relative of the person in question if any such relative can be found in the Colony.

4. Section 8 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Amendment amended by the insertion of the words "from and juelud- of Ordinance

No. 6 of 1906, ing the date of the order" immediately after the word

s. S. days" in the second line thereof.

5. Section 9 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Amendment amended as follows:-

(a) by the repeal of the words "Form A in the Schedule" in the fourth and fifth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "the prescribed form”; and

(6) by the repeal of the words

in the marginal note thereto.

Schedule. Form A.*

of Ordinance No. 6 of 1906,

9.

€. Section 10 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Repeal of repealed and the following section is substituted there- Ordinance for :--

No. 6 of 1906, s. 10 and

Extension of period of detention for observation.

of new section.

10. If while a person is lawfully under substitution detention in an asylum for the purpose of observation, two medical practitioners certify in the prescribed form that it is necessary to detain such person in the asylum for a further period for the purpose of observation, and if such certificate is countersigned by a magis- trate or justice of the peace, it shall be lawful to detain such person in the asylum for the purpose of observation for the further period specified in such certificate : Provided that no such extension shall be for a longer period than seven days and that not more than two such extensions shall be lawful: Provided also that if before the end of any such exten- sion two medical practitioners shall be of opinion that the person in question is of un- sound mind, the procedure laid down in section 9 shall be followed as if the said medical practitioners had formed such opinion during the initial period of detention.

7. Section 11 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Repeal of hereby repealed and the following section is substituted Ordinance

No. 6 of 1906. therefor:

s. 1. and substitution Removal of

of new patient in hospital to asylum.

li. -(1). If in the opinion of the senior medi- cal officer for the time being present in, and on the staff of, any hospital, any patient in such hospital shows symptoms of suffering from delirium tremens, it shall be lawful for such medical officer, if he considers it desirable, to order such pasient to be removed to an asylum, for the purpose of detention and observation during a period of seven days from and includ- ing the date of the order.

section.