Medical examination and detention of lunatics and leprosy patients

(1) Where it appears to the Government that any beggar detained in a Certified Institution under any order of a Court is of unsound mind or a leper, the Government may by an order setting forth the grounds of belief that the beggar is of unsound mind or a leper, order his removal to a mental hospital or leper asylum or place of safe custody, there to be kept and treated in such manner as the Government directs during the unexpired portion 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 beggar or of others that he should be further detained under medical care or treatment, then until he is discharged according to the Law relating to the lunatics or lepers, as the case may be, for the time being in force.