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Section 351

Delivery of person of unsound mind to care of relative

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 311 of 411
Section 351
(1)

Whenever any relative or friend of any person confined in a psychiatric hospital under section 344 or 348 makes application that that person be delivered over to his care or custody and gives security to the satisfaction of the Ruler that that person shall be properly taken care of and shall be prevented from doing injury to himself or any other person, the Ruler may in his discretion, after consulting the Visitors and the Medical Director of that psychiatric hospital, order that person to be delivered to that relative or friend:

Provided that if the person is confined under section 344, the Ruler may further require the relative or friend to give security to the satisfaction of the Ruler that if at any time it shall appear to the Ruler that that person is capable of making his defence, that relative or friend shall produce that person for trial.

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(2)

Whenever such person is so delivered it shall be on condition that he shall be produced for the inspection of such officer and at such times as the Ruler directs.

Interpretation of “psychiatric hospital” and “Visitors”