Section 43, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Subject to section 16 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1965, whenever the presence of a person confined in a correctional centre is required by a court or other competent authority, the court or competent authority may issue an order addressed to the officer in charge requiring production before the court or other competent authority of that person in proper custody at the time and place to be named in the order. (2) The officer in charge shall cause the person named in the order referred to in subsection (1) to be brought up as directed, and shall provide for the person's safe custody during the person's absence from that correctional centre, and the court or competent authority may, by endorsement on the order require the person named in the order to be again brought up at any time to which the matter in which such person is required may be adjourned. (3) An inmate taken from a correctional centre in pursuance of an order made under this section shall, whilst outside the correctional centre, be kept in such custody as the officer in charge may direct and whilst in that custody shall be deemed to be in lawful custody.