Adjudication of unsoundness of mind and committal to Mental Hospital

(1) Where upon any such inquiry it appears to the magistrate that the person examined by the medical practitioners is of unsound mind and a proper subject for confinement, he may adjudge that person to be of unsound mind and a proper subject for confinement. (2) If the magistrate so adjudges the person examined by the medical practitioners, he shall make an order committing that person to the Mental Hospital for custody and treatment as a patient therein. (3) Every person adjudged a person of unsound mind under this section shall be delivered into the custody of a police officer or other authorised person together with a warrant of commitment and the certificates or certificate of his unsoundness of mind, and the person to whom he is delivered shall conduct him to the Mental Hospital and there deliver him to the Director of Health Services. (4) The Director of Health Services shall receive the person adjudged to be of unsound mind and he shall be responsible for the safe keeping and treatment of that person under this Act. (5) Delivery of that person to any officer appointed by the Director of Health Services to receive persons adjudged to be of unsound mind in the Mental Hospital shall be sufficient compliance with subsections (3) and (4) of this section. magistrate of ill treatment or mind.