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On 26/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 26/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 26/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 25/03/1992.
Custody of detained persons of unsound mind
63.
—(1)  Whenever a detained person appears to a medical officer to be mentally disordered he may direct that the detained person be removed to any mental hospital or other fit place of safe custody and be there detained, and an order of removal signed by the officer-in-charge shall be authority for the reception of the detained person and for his detention therein until removed or discharged as provided in paragraph (2).
(2)  Where a detained person who is detained in a mental hospital under these Rules is in the opinion of the medical officer in charge of such mental hospital no longer mentally disordered the medical officer shall report accordingly to the officer-in-charge who shall, by order, direct the return of the detained person to the place of detention from where he was removed or to any other place of detention.