MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 59 Removal to hospital of other prisoners.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 59

Removal to hospital of other prisoners.

59.(1) If in case of a person to whom this section applies the Minister is
satisfied by the like reports as are required for the purposes of section
fifty-eight

(a)that that person is suffering from mental illness or requires special care;
and

(b)that the mental disorder from which the person is suffering is of a nature
or degree which warrants his detention in hospital for medical treatment;

(2) This section applies to the following persons

(b)persons committed in custody to [the Crown Court] under section four or
section six of the Probation Act (Northern Ireland), 1950 [, section 20 of the
Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 or Article 3, 9 or 10 of
the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976];

(c)persons remanded in custody by [the Crown Court] to await a judgment or
sentence which has been respited;

(d)persons remanded in custody by a court of summary jurisdiction;

(e)persons remanded in custody by a justice of the peace conducting a
preliminary investigation of an indictable offence;

(f)civil prisoners, that is to say, persons committed by a court to prison for
a limited term (including persons committed to prison in pursuance of a writ
of attachment), not being persons falling to be dealt with under section
fifty-eight; and

(g)aliens detained in a prison within the meaning of the Prison Act (Northern
Ireland), 1953, in pursuance of the Aliens Order, 1953.

(3) Sub-sections (2) to (5) of section fifty-eight shall apply for the
purposes of this section and of any transfer direction given by virtue of this
section as they apply for the purposes of that section and of any
transfer direction given thereunder.

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MENTAL HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 59