316. Visiting of prisoners of unsound mind

When any person is confined under section 310 or 315 the medical officer of the prison, if that person is confined in a prison, or the visitors of the mental hospital, or any two of them, if he is confined in a mental hospital, may visit him in order to ascertain his state of mind, and he shall be visited once at least in every 6 months by that medical officer or by two of those visitors, and the medical officer or visitors shall make a special report to the Minister as to the state of mind of that person. [315