Drug Dependant Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 2007 · As enacted · Part III · Compulsory Admission to a Treatment Centre
10. Compulsory admission to a Treatment Centre
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
Where an Officer-in-Charge of a Police Station receives information that any person is a habitual user of dangerous drugs and has since become a drug dependant person, he shall forthwith take such steps as may be necessary to cause such person to be examined by a Government
Medical Officer. The Government Medical Officer shall thereupon submit a report to the police officer who referred the drug dependant person to him or any other officer attached to the relevant Police Station, setting out the results of such examination. The report shall contain reasons for his observations that such person is or is not, a drug dependant person and details as to the extent of such person’s drug dependency. Where the report is submitted to an officer who is not the Officer-in-Charge, such police officer shall report the fact of such information to the Officer-in-Charge of the Police Station.
If according to the report of the Government Medical
Officer the person examined by him is a drug dependant person, the Officer-in-Charge of the Police Station shall produce such person or cause such person to be produced, before a Magistrate who shall take action in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
A Magistrate before whom a person produced upon the completion of the procedure set out in subsection (1) and (2), shall make Order that such person be sent for compulsory treatment and rehabilitation at any Treatment Centre designated or licensed under this Act, as may be determined by such Magistrate.
Where a person is convicted and sentenced for any offence under the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs
Ordinance (Chapter 214) and the Court convicting such person is satisfied by evidence on oath led before such Court that such person is a drug dependant person, the Court may, commit the person so convicted to a Treatment Centre for such period of time as may be determined by Court taking in to consideration the degree of dependence of such person. Such period of time may be extended on application made by the
Director of the Treatment Centre to which such person is committed. The circumstances on which the extension is requested should be sufficient in the opinion of the Court to necessitate such extension :
Provided however, the Court may consider the period of treatment as part of the sentence imposed.
Where a person is committed for treatment under subsection (4) the Commissioner of Prisons shall after consultation with the Director of the Treatment Centre take such steps as are necessary to transfer such person from the prison to the Centre to undergo treatment for such period as determined by Court.
Any person admitted to a Treatment Centre under this section, shall from time to time be subject to assessment by an Assessment Panel appointed under section 7.
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