Criminal Justice Act, 1960

Extension of powers in relation to the places of confinement of criminal lunatics.

8.—(1) A warrant under section 2 or section 3 of the Criminal Lunatics (Ireland) Act, 1838, or section 13 of the Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act, 1875 , in relation to any person may, at the discretion of the Minister, order the removal of the person to the Central Mental Hospital or to any district mental hospital and, where the warrant so orders, references in the section under which the warrant is issued to an asylum shall be construed as references to the Central Mental Hospital or district mental hospital, as the case may be, and the section shall have effect accordingly.

(2) Where a person is detained under the said section 2 , the said section 3 , the said section 13 or section 12 of the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act, 1845 , the Minister may, at his discretion, by order under this subsection, direct the transfer of the person—

(a) if he is detained in the Central Mental Hospital, to a district mental hospital, and

(b) if he is detained in a district mental hospital, to the Central Mental Hospital or to another district mental hospital,

and, where a person is transferred under this subsection to the Central Mental Hospital or to a district mental hospital, references in the section under which he is detained to an asylum or to a mental institution or hospital shall be construed as references to the Central Mental Hospital or to the district mental hospital to which he is transferred, as the case may be, and the section shall have effect accordingly.