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[(2)] Power of Provincial Government to relieve Inspector General of certain functions. The
2[Provincial Government] may empower the officer incharge of the jail in which a person is confined under
the provisions of section 466 or this section, to discharge all or any of the functions of the Inspector General
of Prisons under 3* * section 473 or section 474.
472. [Lunatic prisoner to be visited by Inspector General] Rep. by the Lunacy Act, 1912 (IV of 1912),
S.101 and Schedule II.
473. Procedure where lunatic prisoner is reported capable of making his defence. If such person is
[detained] under the provisions of section 466, and 5[in the case of a person detained in a jail, the Inspector
General of Prisons, or, in the case of a person detained in a lunatic asylum, the visitors of such asylum or
any two of them] shall certify that, in his or their opinion, such person is capable of making his defence, he
shall be taken before the Magistrate or Court, as the case may be, at such time as the Magistrate or Court
appoints, and the Magistrate or Court shall deal with such person under the provisions of section 468 ; and
the certificate of such InspectorGeneral or visitors as aforesaid shall be receivable as evidence.
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474. Procedure where lunatic detained under section 466 or 471 is declared fit to be released.(1)
If such person is 6[detained] under the provisions of section 466 or section 471, and such Inspector General
or visitors shall certify that, in his or their judgment, he may be 7[released] without danger of his doing injury
to himself or to any other person, the 2[Provincial Government] may thereupon order him to be 7[released]
or to be detained in custody, or to be transferred to a public lunatic asylum if he has not been already sent to
such an asylum ; and, in case it orders him to be transferred to an asylum, may appoint a Commission,
consisting of a judicial and two medical officers.
(2) Such Commission shall make formal inquiry into the state of mind of such person, taking such
evidence as is necessary, and shall report to the 2[Provincial Government], which may order his 8[release] or
detention as it thinks fit.
[475. Delivery of lunatic to care of relative or friend.(1) Whenever any relative or friend of any
person detained under the provisions of section 466 or section 471 desires that he shall be delivered to his
care and custody, the 2[Provincial Government] may, upon the application of such relative or friend and on
his giving security to the satisfaction of such 2[Provincial Government] that the person delivered shall
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1 Original subsection (4) was renumbered “(2)” by Act 18 of 1923, s.124.
2 Subs. by A.O, 1937, for “L.G”.
3 The word and figures “section 472” rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s.3 and Sch.II.
4 Subs. by Act 18 of 1923, s.125, for “confined”.
5 Subs. ibid., for “Such inspector General or visitors”.
6 Subs. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1923 (18 of 1923), s. 126, for "confined".
7 Subs. ibid., for “discharged”.
8 Subs. by Act 18 of 1923, s.126, for “discharge”.
9 Subs. ibid., s.127, for the original s. 475.
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