COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 15AJ Person deemed to be criminal lunatic under Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 15AJ

    Where a person who has been removed to a State under this Act:

  (a)   is found to have been insane at the time of the commission of the offence;

  (b)   is found or certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be unfit, on the ground of insanity, to be tried for the offence; or

  (c)   is convicted of an offence and afterwards certified, or otherwise lawfully proved, to be insane;

the person shall be deemed:

  (d)   to be a criminal lunatic within the meaning of the Removal of Prisoners (Territories) Act 1923 ; and

  (e)   to have been removed to that State under that Act;

and sections   9 and 10A of that Act apply (so far as they are capable of applying) in relation to the person accordingly.