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After section 39 of the Prisons Act, 1894, the following section shall be inserted, namely:- "39-A. Power of Superintendent to send a prisoner to hospital or asylum for special treatment. The Superintendent may, if in his opinion, a prisoner requires special treatment in a hospital outside the prison or in an asylum as defined in the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912, send him to such hospital or asylum subject to the prisoner or any relative or friend of the prisoner executing such bond and abiding by such other conditions, if any, as the [State] Government may by rule or order prescribe. Any period during which the prisoner is undergoing treatment in such Hospital or asylum or spent by him in going thereto or returning therefrom shall be deemed to be part of the period of his detention in the prison. Explanation.-- Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to affect the operation of section 30 of the Prisoners Act, 1900, in cases to which that section applies". Substituted by the Adaptation Order of 1950