(1) Where it appears to the State Government that any beggar detained in a Certified Institution under any order of a court is of unsound mind or is a leper, the State Government may by any 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 other place of safe custody, there to be képt and treated as State Gavernment 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 medica! 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, he should be detamed until he is discharged according to law. .
(2) Where it appcars to the State Govcmmcm that the beggar has ceased to be of unsound mind, or is cured of leprosy, the State Government shall, if he is no longer liuble to be kept in custody, order him to be discharged. In cusc the beggar is still [iable to be kept in custody the State Government shall, by an order directed to Lhe person having charge of the beggar, send him to the Certified Institution from which he was removed.
1971 : Haryana Act 9} " PREVENTION OF BEGGARY 71
(3) The provisions of section 31 of the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912, and the provisions of section 14 of the Lcpers Act, 1898, shait apply 10 every beggar confined in a mental hospital or leper asylum under sub-section (/) after the expiration of the period for which he was ordered to be detained ; and the lime during which a beggar is confined in a mental hospital or leper asylum under that sub-section shall be reckoned as part of the period for \\hnch he muy have been ordered by the Court to be detained :
Provided that where the removal of a beggar due to unsoundness of mind or leprosy is immediately necessary, it shall be open to the authorities of the institution in which the beggar is detained to apply 1o a court having jurisdiction under the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912, or the Lepers Act, 1898, as the case may be, for an immediate order of his committal to a mental hospital or a leper asylum.