Section 45

In case of illness of a prisoner (other than a prisoner mentioned in subsection (2)) confined in a prison in which there is no suitable accommodation for the prisoner, any Superintendent may, on the certificate of a medical officer, make an order for the prisoner’s removal to a hospital.

Where a prisoner confined in a prison appears to the Minister on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner to be suffering from leprosy, the Minister may, by written order, direct the prisoner’s removal to any hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services under section 8(1) of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976, there to be kept and treated until cured of his leprosy.

So long as any prisoner who has been removed to any hospital or place under subsection (2) remains in the hospital or place, the medical officer thereof must, at the end of every month, transmit to the Superintendent of the prison a certificate signed by the medical officer that it is in his or her opinion necessary that the prisoner should remain in the hospital or place.