5. When a person is detained in a house of detention, such services must be required from a psychiatric establishment for detained persons by a physician whose examination is required by such house of detention, unless such physician believes that public safety is not endangered if such examination is required from an institution operating a hospital centre and the administrator of the house of detention shares such opinion.
1972, c. 44, s. 5; 1992, c. 21, s. 263.