Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 54A

Hospital order in respect of persons awaiting trial or sentence

If it appears to the court or magistrate having jurisdiction to try or
otherwise deal with a person specified in section 53(2)(a), (b), (c) or

   (d)  that-

   (a)  the conditions set out in section 54(3) are satisfied; and

   (b)  it is impracticable or inappropriate to bring that person before the
        court or magistrate, the court or magistrate may, by a hospital order
        made in respect of that person in his absence and, if he is a person
        awaiting trial, without convicting him, authorize his admission to and
        detention in the Correctional Services Department Psychiatric Centre.
        (Added 37 of 1973 s. 6)