to be taken as directed and shall provide for his safe custody
during his absence from the prison or the lock-up.


Persons taken
out of priso*
or lock-up
under order
deemed in
legal custody.
Persons of
unsound mind
detained in a
prison or
lock-up.












Prisoners etc.
suffering from
leprosy.


 27. Any person taken from a prison or lock-up under
any order made under section 25 or section 26 of this Ordin-
ance shall, whilst outside that prison or lock-up, be deemed to
he in legal custody.

 28. Whenever a person detained in a prison or lock-up
is awaiting trial or is remanded in custody and it appears to
the Administrator, acting in his discretion, on the certificate
of a registered medical practitioner that such person is of
unsound mind, the Administrator acting as aforesaid may, by
order in writing setting' forth the grounds of belief that such
person detained is of unsound mind, direct his removal to a
Mental Hospital in the Colony there to be kept and treated as
if such person had been ordered to be detained in such Mental
Hospital under any law in force for that purpose and until
the Medical Officer of such Mental Hospital certifies that such
person has ceased to require treatment in that institution.
Whenever the Medical Officer has so certified the Adminis-
trator, acting in his discretion, shall by order in writing
direct that such person be returned to the lock-up whence he
was removed there to be dealt with according to law.
 29. (1) Whenever a'prisoner or a person detained in a
prison or lock-up appears to the Administrator, acting in his
discretion, on the certificate of a registered medical practi-
tioner to be suffering from leprosy, the Administrator acting
as aforesaid may, by order in writing setting forth the grounds
of belief that the prisoner or such person detained is suffer-
ing from leprosy, direct his removal to such place as may be
specified in the order there to be kept and treated until a regis-
tered medical practitioner certifies that such prisoner or
person has ceased to require treatment in that institution.

 (2) Where a certificate to the effect that a prisoner or
person detained has ceased to require 'institutional treatment
has been given under subsection (1) of this section, then if
any prisoner or person in respect of whom the certificate is
given is-
 (a) a prisoner and the term of his sentence has not ex-
 pired, the Administrator, acting in his discretion,
 shall, by order in writing, direct either that he be
 returned to the prison whence he was removed there
 to serve the remainder of any term to which he is
 liable or that he be discharged; or


Prisons.


1967.


No. 30.