Section 34

Whenever a prisoner undergoing a sentence of imprisonment or sentenced to death appears to a Medical Officer to be mentally disordered or defective, he may, by order under his hand and seal in the form in the

Schedule, direct that such prisoner be removed to any psychiatric facility or other fit place of safe custody in Brunei Darussalam and be there detained, and the order shall be an authority for the reception of the prisoner and for his detention therein until removed or discharged as provided under this section.

Where a prisoner is detained in a psychiatric facility under the provisions of this Act and is in the opinion of the Medical Officer in charge for such psychiatric facility is no longer mentally disordered, such Medical

Officer may report accordingly to the Director who shall, by order under his hand and seal, direct the return of such prisoner to the prison whence he was removed to be dealt with according to law.

[GN 68/1985; S 25/2014]

Upon the expiration of the term of imprisonment to which he has been sentenced, the provisions of section 324 of the Criminal Procedure

Code (Chapter 7) shall apply to any prisoner detained under this section as if he were detained in accordance with a certificate given under section 247 or 321 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Chapter 7).

The time occupied in effecting any removal under this section and the period during which the prisoner is detained in a psychiatric facility shall be reckoned as part of the term of imprisonment imposed on such prisoner.

Removal and transfer of prisoners undergoing imprisonment.