(2) No suit or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Government for any damage caused or
likely to be caused for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of
this Ordinance or the rules or orders made thereunder.
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CHAPTER IX
INSPECTION OF MENTALLY DISORDERED PRISONERS
54. Inspection of mentally disordered prisoners.__(1) Where any person is detained under the
provisions of section 466 or section 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898),
section 130 of the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXIX of 1952), section 143 of the Pakistan Air Force
Act, 1953 (VI of 1953), or section 123 of the Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961 (XXXV of 1961), the
Inspector‑General of Prisons, if the accused person is detained in a jail, and the Board of Visitors or
any two members of such Board, if the accused person is detained in a psychiatric facility, may visit
him in order to ascertain his state of mind and such a detainee shall be visited once at least in every
six months by the Inspector General of Prisons or, as the case may be, the Board or any two members
of such Board, shall make a report as to the state of mind of such person to the authority under whose
order the accused person is detained and the Inspector General of Prisons or, as the case may be, the
Board of Visitors or any two members of such Board, shall make a report as to the state of mind of
such person to the authority under whose order the accused person is detained.
(2) The Government may empower the officer in charge of the jail in which such accused person
is detained to discharge all or any of the functions of the Inspector‑General of Prisons under sub
section (1).
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CHAPTER X
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
55. Forensic psychiatric services.__(1) Special security forensic psychiatric facilities shall be
developed by the Government to house mentally disordered prisoners, mentally disordered offenders,
as may be prescribed.
(2) Admission, transfer or removal of patients concerned with criminal proceedings in such
facilities shall be under the administrative control, of the Inspector‑General of Prisons.
(3) The Board of Visitors shall have an access to such persons admitted in forensic psychiatric
facility in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
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