Section 60

When any person has been received into a mental hospital in accordance with section 310 or 315 of the Criminal Procedure Code [Cap. 68] or section 31 of the Prisons Act [Cap. 247] the court shall on the application of the medical superintendent make an order for the payment of the cost of maintenance of that person in the mental hospital, and may direct that any sum of money payable under that order shall be recovered from the estate of that person, or of any person legally bound to maintain him:Provided that if at any time it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the person has not sufficient property and that no person legally bound to maintain the person has sufficient means for the payment of such cost, the court shall so certify instead of making such order for the payment of the cost.

An order under subsection (1) shall be enforced in the same manner and shall be of the same force and effect and subject to the same appeal as a judgment or order made by the court in a suit in respect of the property or person therein mentioned. [61