S.L. 217.19 Art. 41Medical examinations required in the interests of others.

(1) This regulation applies where an officer, acting under an authorisation given by the officer in charge, requires a detained person to submit to a medical examination for the purposes of determining whether he is suffering from a disease.

(2) A detained person who has been required to submit to a medical examination shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be asked to consent to the examination and be informed by the examining medical practitioner of the nature of the disease from which there are reasonable grounds to believe he is suffering.

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