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ACT XXIII OF 2014 ACT XXIII OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS ACT, 2014 An Act to provide for the establishment and regulation of Borstal Institutions in Balochistan and for the matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto 10. Mentally disordered inmates.---(1) Where it appears to the Incharge that any inmate is of unsound mind, the Incharge may order his removal to psychiatric facility or other place of safe custody within the Province, to be kept and treated as Incharge directs during the remainder of the term for which he has been ordered to be detained or, if on the expiration of that term it is certified by a medical officer that it is necessary for the safety of the inmate or others that he should be further detained under medical care or treatment, then until he is discharged according to law. (2) Where it appears to the Incharge that an inmate so kept and treated has become of sound mind, Incharge shall, by a warrant directed to the person having charge of the inmate, if still liable to be detained, remand him to the Borstal Institution from which he was removed or to another Borstal Institution within the Province or, if he is no longer liable to be detained, order him to be discharged. (3) The provisions of the Mental Health Ordinance, 2001 (Ordinance No. VIII of 2001) shall apply to every person so removed under subsection (1), after the expiration of the term for which he was ordered to be detained and the time during which an inmate is confined in a psychiatric facility under that subsection shall be reckoned as part of the term of detention which he may have been ordered to undergo. (4) In any case in which Incharge is competent under subsection (1) to order the removal of an inmate to psychiatric facility or other place of safe custody within the Province, Incharge may order his removal to any such psychiatric facility, or place of safety within any other province by agreement with the government of such other province and the provisions of this section respecting the custody, detention, remand and discharge of an inmate removed under subsection (1) shall, so far as they can be made applicable, apply to an inmate removed under this subsection: Provided order of removal of an inmate to any other psychiatric facility or other place of safe custody in any other province has to be approved by the Home Department of the Province from which such inmate so removed.