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12.   Discharge and absence of persons on trial

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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12.   Discharge and absence of persons on trial

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    (1)   The Superintendent of a mental hospital may order the discharge from any mental hospital of any patient, whether recovered or not, detained under this Act, or may, subject to the provisions of this Act, allow any such patient to be absent on trial for such period as he or she thinks fit, and may at any time grant an extension of such period.

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    (2)   In respect of any pauper patient absent on trial the Governor General may by warrant under his or her hand order the payment out of any fund chargeable with the maintenance of such patient of any sum not exceeding the sum of $7.20 per month.

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    (3)   A patient shall not be allowed to be absent on trial under this section unless some person enters into an agreement approved by the Superintendent to take charge of such patient.

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    (4)   If any patient allowed to be absent on trial under this section does not return at or before the expiration of the allowed period of absence, then, unless a certificate signed by a medical officer certifying that such patient may safely be permitted to be at large is sent to the Superintendent or other principal officer of the hospital in which the patient was confined, such patient may at any time within 30 days from the expiration of such period be retaken as if he or she had escaped from the hospital.

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    (5)   The provisions of this section shall not apply to any person detained in a mental hospital under the provisions of sections 30 to 37.

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