Power of Superintendent to send prisoner to hospital for special treatment

(1) The Superintendent may if in his opinion a prisoner requires special treatment in a hospital outside the prison or in any asylum as defined in the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912 (No. 4 of 1912), send him or cause him to be sent to such hospital or asylum, subject to the prisoner or any relative or friend of the prisoner executing such bond and abiding by such other conditions, if any, as the State Government may prescribe. (2) The period spent by the prisoner for such treatment in the hospital or asylum or in going thereto or returning therefrom shall be deemed to be part of the period of his detention in the prison. Explanation I.—Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to affect the operation of section 30 of the Prisoners Act, 1900.