Supervision, treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts
34.—(1)  The Director may require any person whom he reasonably suspects to be a drug addict to be medically examined or observed by a Government medical officer or a medical practitioner.
[38/89]
(2)  If, as a result of such medical examination or observation under subsection (1) or both the urine tests conducted under section 31(4)(b), it appears to the Director that it is necessary for any person examined or observed, or who supplied the urine specimen for the urine tests —
(a)to be subject to supervision, the Director may make a supervision order requiring that person to be subject to the supervision of an officer of the Bureau for a period not exceeding 2 years; or
(b)to undergo treatment or rehabilitation or both at an approved institution, the Director may make an order in writing requiring that person to be admitted for that purpose to an approved institution.
[38/89]
(3)  Every person who is admitted to an approved institution under this section shall be detained in the institution for a period of 6 months unless he is discharged earlier by the Director or the Review Committee of the institution.
[12/77]
(4)  If the Review Committee of an approved institution is of the opinion that an inmate of that institution whose period of detention therein is about to expire requires further treatment or rehabilitation or both, the Committee may by order in writing direct that the inmate be detained in the institution for a further period or periods not exceeding 6 months at any one time.
[12/77]
(4A)  The Director may, under such circumstances as may be prescribed, extend the period for which a person is subject to supervision under subsection (2)(a) for a period not exceeding 2 years.
[2/2006]
(5)  No person in respect of whom an order has been made under subsection (2)(b) shall be detained in an approved institution or institutions for a period of more than 3 years after his admission to any approved institution pursuant to that order.
[12/77; 28/79; 2/2006]