Malaysia legislation
Section 12
Section 12
Where a person has been convicted of an offence under Chapter
XVI of the Penal Code [Act 574] involving hurt, grievous hurt, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, assault or criminal force against any other person, and the Court has reason to suspect that that other person is mentally disordered and is not under proper care and control, the Court may send that person before a medical officer in a government psychiatric hospital or a registered medical practitioner in a gazetted private psychiatric hospital for examination.