Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Custody and Removal of Prisoners
45. Illness of prisoner
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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.
prisoner
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;
Where a prisoner confined in a prison appears to the Minister on the certificate of a registered medical practitioner to be suffering from an infectious disease, the Minister may, by written order, direct the prisoner’s removal to any hospital or place specified by the Director‑General of Health under section 8(1) of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976, there to be kept and treated until cured of the infectious disease.
prison
“prison” means any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, declared to be a prison or reformative training centre under section 3, and includes the grounds and buildings within the prison enclosure and also the airing grounds or other grounds or buildings belonging or attached thereto and used by prisoners;
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.
medical officer
“medical officer” means a medical officer appointed under section 25;