Criminal Procedure Code (Transitional Provisions — Confined Persons of Unsound Mind) Regulations 2011

any certification made before 2nd January 2011 under section 318 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code by a medical officer of a prison or the medical superintendent and 2 visitors of a mental hospital in which the person is confined shall be deemed to be a certification made under section 256(1) of the Code by the principal officer and 2 visitors of the psychiatric institution in which the person is confined; and

the confinement of the person under section 310 or 315 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code shall be deemed to be a confinement under section 249(2) or 252 of the Code.

confined under section 310 or 315 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code; and

visited by the medical officer of the prison or visitors of a mental hospital, as the case may be, for the purposes of making a special report to the Minister under section 316 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code,then any special report so made by the medical officer of the prison or visitors of a mental hospital shall be deemed to be made by 2 of the visitors of a psychiatric institution under section 253 of the Code.

a person is, before 2nd January 2011, remanded for any period to be detained for observation in a mental hospital under section 308 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code; and

any certificate containing the written opinion of the medical superintendent on the state of mind of the person is, or is to be, made by the medical superintendent under section 308 of the repealed Criminal Procedure Code,then the person shall be deemed to be remanded under section 247 of the Code, and any certificate of the medical superintendent shall be deemed to be a certificate of the principal officer under section 247 of the Code.