(1) Where a person detained in a correctional facility, lock-up or legalised police cell appears to the Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell to be mentally ill, the Director or person in charge may order the Consultant Psychiatrist to examine the person detained.
(2) Where the Consultant Psychiatrist certifies that such person detained is, in the opinion of the Consultant Psychiatrist, mentally ill, the Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell, shall seek a court order to have the person detained committed to a mental hospital, there to be kept and treated as if he or she had been ordered to be detained in the mental hospital under the Mental Hospitals'Act until a consultant psychiatrist of such Mental Hospital certifies that the person has ceased to require treatment in that institution.
(3) The court which made the order of committal under subsection (2), shall by order direct that the person detained be returned to the correctional facility, lock-up or legalised police cell where he or she was removed there to be dealt with according to law.
(4) Where a person detained in a correctional facility lock-up or legalised police cell appears to the Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell to be suffering from any communicable diseases as specified under the Public Health Act, the Director or person in charge may order a medical officer to examine the person detained.
(5) Where the medical officer certifies that the person detained is, in the opinion of the medical officer, suffering from a communicable disease that cannot be managed within the health unit of the correctional facility, the Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell shall seek a court order to have the person removed to such place as may be specified in the order there to be kept and treated until a medical practitioner of that place, certifies that the person detained has ceased to require treatment in that place, and the provisions of subsection (3) shall apply with the necessary modifications.
(6) The provisions of this section are in addition to and not in derogation of any enactment dealing with communicable diseases.