Section 47, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Whenever a medical officer or officer in charge is ofthe opinion that an inmate is of unsound mind the medical officer or officer in charge shall take all necessary action to procure the inmate's certification under the Lunacy Act. (2) If that inmate is certified to be of unsound mind that inmate shall be removed as soon as convenient from the correctional centre and confined in a mental hospital. (3) Whenever an inmate removed to a mental hospital is entitled to be discharged in accordance with any enactment relating to mental treatment, the medical superintendent in charge of the mental hospital shall notify the officer in charge of the correctional centre from which the inmate was removed and the inmate shall be delivered into the officer's custody if still liable to be confined in a correctional centre, and if not so liable, be released. (4) The period during which the inmate has been detained in the mental hospital shall be reckoned as part of the inmate's term of imprisonment.