Transfer in anticipation of sanction in urgent cases. Rule 447. In urgent cases (i.e., if the patient is noisy, filthy or dangerous), the Superintendent may, if he considers it necessary and with the previous consent of the Medical Superintendent of the mental hospital concerned, transfer the prisoner to the mental hospital in anticipation of the sanction of Government. In such case the prescribed documents shall be sent with the patient and a copy of the Government order shall be forwarded as soon as it is received. Procedure when a sentence is about to expire. Rule448. When an insane prisoner cannot be transferred so as to reach the mental hospital before the expiry of his sentence, he shall be detained in the prison and on the expiry of his sentence treated as a non-criminal mental patient. Time spent in mental hospital to count towards sentence. Rule449. When an insane prisoner has become of sound mind, and an order for his return to prison has been issued by Government, the time during which he was detained in the mental hospital shall be reckoned as sentence undergone. Procedure when a recovered patient has a relapse. Rule450. (i) When a recovered criminal mental patient undergoing probation in a prison has a relapse of insanity, he should be immediately returned to the mental hospital in anticipation of the orders of Government. In such a case the prescribed documents should be forwarded with him; the Government order to follow immediately after it has been received. (ii) The Superintendent shall forthwith apply through the Inspector-General for the confirmation of his action by Government submitting at the same time the documents required by Rule 445. Treatment of patients returned to prison. Rule451. When a recovered mental patient is returned to a prison, he shall assigned some suitable work and such liberty as the Medical Officer may consider safe. Mental patients to be visited by Inspector-General. Rule452. (i) The Inspector General of Prisons (where such office exists) shall be a visitor ex-officio of all the mental hospitals within the limit of his jurisdiction, (section 28 of Act IV of 1912 Replaced by Mental Health Ordinance 2001) (ii) When any person is confined under the provisions of Sections 466 or 471 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the InspectorGeneral, if such a person is confined in a prison, or the visitors of the mental hospital or any two of them, if he confined in a mental hospital, may visit him in order to ascertain his state of mind; and 156