Section 37

In the case of serious illness of a prisoner other than a prisoner referred to in subsection (2), confined in a prison in which there is no suitable accommodation for such prisoner, the Officer-in-Charge may, on the certificate of a Medical Officer, make an order for his removal to a

Government hospital or, if the approval of the Minister* is first obtained, to any other hospital.

Where a prisoner confined in a prison appears to the Director on the certificate of a Medical Officer to be a leper, the Director may, by order in writing, direct his removal to any leper, asylum or settlement, to be kept and treated until cured of his leprosy.

So long as any prisoner who shall have been removed to any such hospital, asylum or settlement under the provisions of this section shall remain therein, the Medical Officer thereof shall, at the end of every month, transmit to the Officer-in-Charge of the prison whence the prisoner was removed, a certificate signed by him that it is in his opinion necessary that he should remain in such hospital, asylum or settlement.

* Transferred from the State Secretary to the Minister with effect from 31st December 1983 — [S 32/1983]

Prisons

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