Prisons Act · s 41

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s 41Special custody in hospitals

Where in any case from the gravity of the offence for which any prisoner may be in custody or for any other reason the Officer-in-Charge considers it desirable to take special measures for the security of such prisoner while under treatment in any hospital, leper asylum or settlement, it shall be lawful for him to —

(a)

give such prisoner into the charge of prison officers or other fit and proper persons not being less than two in number, one of whom at the least shall always be with such prisoner day and night;

and

(b)

such persons shall be —

(i)

vested with full power and authority to do all things necessary to prevent such prisoner from escaping; and

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(ii)

answerable for his safe custody until such time as he is handed over to a prison officer on his discharge from such hospital, leper asylum or settlement or until such time as his sentence expires, whichever may first occur.