Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 59

Removal to prison of persons subject to a hospital order

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 60 of 2000 s. 3

If the Chief Executive is satisfied from the report of a medical 
superintendent that a person, who was transferred and detained by a
hospital order authorizing his detention for a specified period, no longer
requires treatment for mental disorder, the Chief Executive may by order
direct that the person be transferred to and detained in prison in the custody
of the Commissioner of Correctional Services for any period not extending
beyond the expiration of the period specified in the hospital  order. (Added
40 of 1962 s. 7. Amended 34 of 1972 s. 22; 46 of 1988 s. 22; 60 of 2000 s. 3)