47. Removal of mentally ill person from one psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home to
any other psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home.—(1) Any mentally ill person other than a
voluntary patient referred to in section 15 or section 16 may, subject to any general or special order of the
State Government, be removed from any psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home to any other
psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home within the State, or to any other psychiatric hospital or
psychiatric nursing home in any other State with the consent of the Government of that other State:
Provided that no mentally ill person admitted to a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home
under an order made in pursuance of an application made under this Act shall be so removed unless
intimation thereof has been given to the applicant.
(2) The State Government may make such general or special order as it thinks fit directing the
removal of any mentally ill prisoner from the place where he is for the time being detained, to any
psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody in the State or to any
psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody in any other State with
the consent of the Government of that other State.
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48. Admission, detention and retaking in certain cases.—Every person brought into a psychiatric
hospital or psychiatric nursing home under any order made under this Act, may be detained or, as the case
may be, admitted as an inpatient therein until he is removed or is discharged under any law, and in case of
his escape from such hospital or nursing home he may, by virtue of such order, be retaken by any police
officer or by the medical officer in charge or any officer or servant of such hospital or nursing home, or
by any other person authorised in that behalf by the medical officer in charge, and conveyed to, and
received and detained or, as the case may be, kept as an inpatient in such hospital or nursing home:
Provided that in the case of a mentally ill person (not being a mentally ill prisoner) the power to
retake as aforesaid under this section shall not be exercisable after the expiry of a period of one month
from the date of his escape.
49. Appeal from orders of Magistrate.—Any person aggrieved by any order of a Magistrate, passed
under any of the foregoing provisions may, within sixty days from the date of the order, appeal against
that order to the District Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Magistrate exercised the
powers and the decision of the District Court on such appeal shall be final.