(1) Where application is made to the Superintendent of a mental hospital by a relative or friend of a mental patient, requiring that the patient may be removed to a place outside the island, the Superintendent shall inquire into the circumstances of the case, and report thereon to the Governor General.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section the Governor General if satisfied by such report that the removal of the patient as required by the application is likely to be for his or her benefit and that proper arrangements will be made for his or her removal and for his or her reception, care and treatment at his or her destination, may, by warrant, direct the patient to be delivered to the person named in the warrant and every such warrant shall be obeyed by the person or authority having charge of the patient.
(3) No alien mental patient shall be removed to any country other than the country of which he or she is a subject and no British mental patient shall be removed to any country outside the British Commonwealth unless the person making the application shall give security to the satisfaction of the Governor General that within such time as may be prescribed by the Governor General—
(a) in the case of an alien, he or she will return to the island or be conveyed to the country of which he or she is a subject;
(b) in the case of a British subject he or she will return to the island or be conveyed to such country in the British Commonwealth as the Governor General may direct.
(4) A warrant issued under this section shall be sufficient authority for the master of any vessel or aircraft to receive and detain a mental patient in such vessel or aircraft and to convey him or her to his or her destination.
Transfer of Persons of Unsound Mind to this Island