Section 87

In the case of the serious illness of any child or young person who is detained in an approved school or approved home or is committed to the care and custody of any society or institution under the provisions of this Act, in which there is no suitable accommodation for the child or young person, any manager or person having control of the place where the child or young person is detained may, on the certificate of a medical officer, make an order for his removal to a Government hospital.

Where any child or young person detained in any of the places mentioned in subsection (1) appears to the Minister on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner to be suffering from leprosy, the Minister may, by order in writing, direct his removal to any hospital or place specified by the Director of Medical Services under section 8(2) of the Infectious Diseases Act [Cap. 137], there to be kept and treated until cured of his leprosy.

So long as any child or young person who has been removed to any such hospital or place under subsections (1) and (2) remains therein, the medical officer thereof shall, at the end of every month, transmit to the manager or person having control of the hospital or place where the child or young person was detained a certificate signed by him that it is in his opinion necessary that he should remain in the hospital or place.

In this section, “Government hospital” includes any hospital which the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, may declare to be a hospital for the purposes of this section.