Courts and Court Officers Act 2009

10.

Handing over of medications, etc., when person in temporary custody.

10.— (1) On placing a person in temporary custody under section 6, the governor or member of the Garda Síochána in whose custody that person was shall hand to the holding area officer concerned—

(a) any medication or prescription for medication that he or she possesses in respect of the person,

(b) any information relating to the person’s health that he or she is aware of, and

(c) any additional articles, documents or information that the Minister may prescribe.

(2) When a holding area officer returns a person placed in temporary custody under section 6 to a person mentioned in subsection (1)(b)(i) or subsection (2)(b)(i) of section 8, the holding area officer shall hand to that person—

(a) any medication or prescription for medication that he or she possesses in respect of the person who was intemporary custody,

(b) any information relating to the person’s health that he or she is aware of, and

(c) any additional articles, documents or information that the Minister may prescribe.