Committal of persons of unsound mind considered dangerous

(1) A magistrate may cause any person discovered under circumstances which indicate a derangement of mind and a purpose of committing an indictable offence to be apprehended and brought before him, and if upon examination of that person by two medical practitioners the magistrate is satisfied that the person is of unsound mind and is dangerous to be at large, he may direct the said person to be conveyed to the (2) The magistrate shall issue a warrant authorising the detention of that person at the Mental Hospital and he shall be received therein and held under that warrant. (3) If any relative or friend of that person enters into a recognisance with sufficient sureties to the satisfaction of the magistrate of the Belize Judicial District for the peaceable behaviour and safe custody of that person, the magistrate may deliver that person into the custody of his relative or friend.