(1) The Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell, when he or she considers it necessary and upon the advice of the medical personnel, may direct that an inmate be removed to a public hospital for medical attention and such inmate shall be detained in such public hospital until the medical officer of that hospital certifies that the inmate is fit to return to the correctional facility, lock-up or legalised police cell.
(2) Every inmate while in a public hospital or while being conveyed from the correctional facility to the hospital or vice versa, shall be deemed to be in legal custody in a correctional facility, lock-up or legalised police cell.
(3) A medical officer of the public hospital to which the inmate is removed shall, on the request of the Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell, give a status report on the condition of the inmate and shall immediately notify the Director or person in charge of a lock-up or legalised police cell in the event that the inmate is to be discharged as fit to return to the correctional facility, lock-up or legalised police cell.
(4) The provisions of this section shall cease to apply to an inmate from the date on which he or she is lawfully entitled to be released from the correctional facility, lock-up or legalised police cell.