Admission in cases of urgency

(1) In case of accident or emergency, the medical officer in charge of any hospital may admit thereto without an order any person who in his opinion urgently requires immediate medical treatment. (2) Whenever a person is admitted to a hospital under this section the medical officer in charge of the hospital shall as soon as is practicable after such admission send to a magistrate a report of the case in the form in the Third Schedule, and the magistrate shall after inquiry through the police or otherwise send to the medical officer in charge of the hospital either a certificate as in the form given in the First Schedule or an order as in the form in the Fourth Schedule. (3) When an order is made in the form in the Fourth Schedule with respect to a person admitted to a hospital under this section, that person shall be prima facie liable to pay hospital dues as from the date of his admission as a patient of the class named in such order. (4) The court before which any such dues are sought to be recovered may, if objection is taken to the order, but with the burden of proof lying on the person objecting, inquire into the means of the person admitted to the hospital, and decide whether, in the case in question, a certificate or an order should have been sent by the magistrate, and, if an order was rightly sent, whether the person was correctly classed in such order, and adjudicate accordingly. Dispensaries- their object.