Section 25
Criminal Procedure Code by Visitors on an application of a relative or friend
(1)
If a relative or friend of a person confined in an approved psychiatric hospital makes an application under section 351 of the
Criminal Procedure Code for the person to be delivered over to his care or custody, that relative or friend may give a copy of that application to the Medical Director of the approved psychiatric hospital.
(2)
Upon receiving a copy of the application, the Medical
Director and the Visitors of the approved psychiatric hospital shall examine the person and prepare a report certifying whether in their judgment that person could be delivered over to the care or custody of the relative or friend without any danger of the person doing injury to himself or to any other person.
(3)
The report referred to in subsection (2) shall be submitted to the State Secretary of the State of the Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri
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by whose order the person is confined or the Chief Secretary to the
Government if the person is confined by the order of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.