97Provision of institutions for treatment under conditions of special security
(1)The Minister shall provide such institutions as appear to him to be necessary for persons subject to detention under this Act, being persons who, in the opinion of the Minister, require treatment under conditions of special security on account of their dangerous, violent or criminal propensities.
(2)The institutions vested in the Minister by subsection (3) of section sixty-two of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, and by subsection (4) of section forty-nine of the National Health Service Act, 1946, shall be deemed to be institutions provided by the Minister under this section.
(3)Institutions provided, or deemed to be provided, by the Minister under this section are in this Act referred to as special hospitals.