Rule 163 Remands in hospital

Where a person has been arrested and charged with an offence and by reason of illness has been taken to hospital before being remanded by a magistrates’ court, a court sitting out of petty sessions in the precincts of the hospital may, instead of remanding him by committing him to prison, if it appears expedient to do so, remand him under Article 47 of the Order in the custody of the governor of the appropriate prison and under the control of a prison officer for the purposes of section 18 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953^f1.