No. 30. Prisons. 1967.


 (b) a person awaiting trial or remanded in custody, the
 Administrator, acting in his discretion shall, by order
 in writing, direct that such person shall return to the
 prison or lock-up whence he was removed there to
 be dealt with according to law.
 30. (1) In the case of the serious illness, other than Illness of
unsonndness of mind or leprosy, of a prisoner, or person de- prisoner.
trained in a lock-up, there being no suitable accommodation for
such prisoner or-person in such a prison or lock-up, the Super-
intendent or person in charge of the prison or lock-up (as the
case 'may be) may, on the certificate of the Medical Officer or,
in the case of a person detained in a lock-up, a registered
medical practitioner, make an order for his removal to a
Government Hospital.
 (2) So long as any prisoner or person detained who has
been removed to'any hospital under the provisions of sub-
section (1) of this section remains therein, the Medical Officer
thereof shall, at the end of every month transmit to the Super-
intendent, or person in charge of the lock-up, (as the case
may be) a certificate signed by him that it is in his opinion
necessary that such prisoner or lwrson detained should remain
in the hospital.
 (3) So soon as, in the opinion of the Medical Officer in
charge of any hospital, it is no longer necessary that any
prisoner or person detained who has been removed to such
hospital should remain therein, lie shall transmit to the Super-
intendent, or person in charge of the lock-up (as the case may
be) a certificate, stating that such necessity has ceased, and
thereupon the Superintendent or person in charge (as the
case may be) shall forthwith cause such prisoner or person
detained to be brought back to the prison or lock-up if he is
still liable to be confined therein.
 (4) The provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this
section shall (ease to apply to a prisoner or person detained
as from the date on which he would be entitled to be released
from the prison or lock-up.
 31. Where any prisoner or person detained in a prison Custody of
or lock-up is by virtue of section 29 of this Ordinance removed prisoner etc.
from any prison or lock-up to any hospital, the person in in hospital.
charge of such hospital shall take all practicable steps to pre-
vent the escape of such prisoner or person detained, and while
such -prisoner or person detained remains in such hospital he
shall be deemed to be in legal custody:
 Provided that where any such prisoner or person detained
would but for the fact that he is in such hospital be entitled
to be released from the prison or lock-up, then as from the