Immediate attendance and consultation

(1) The Medical Officer shall attend as soon as possible on attendance and receiving information of the illness of a prisoner. (2) The Medical Officer may at his discretion call into consultation another medical practitioner and shall do so before a serious operation is performed upon a prisoner, unless in his opinion it is essential for the operation to be performed immediately. (3) The Medical Officer shall record in the Medical Journal occasions on which in accordance with this rule he consults another medical practitioner, and of the circumstances in which serious operations are performed without consultation.