Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 50

Period of detention under this Part

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

No person shall be detained- (Amended 81 of 1997 s. 42)

   (a)  in pursuance of a hospital order, being an order authorizing his
        detention for a specified period, after the expiration of that period;
        or

   (b)  if he is serving a sentence of imprisonment in pursuance of the order
        of any court, in a mental hospital or the Correctional Services 
        Department Psychiatric Centre after the expiration of the sentence of 
        imprisonment, unless he is detained under Part III otherwise than as
        applied by this Part. (Replaced 46 of 1988 s. 18)