Article 116 — Period of Time Spent in Hospital Transfer in Case of

Illness. (1) If while serving sentence a prisoner has to transferred to a hospital for treatment, the period spent in hospital shall be reckoned as part of the sentence. If the transfer to hospital is due to illness or to any cause existing before the prisoner started to serve his sentence, the period in hosp shall, subject to the provision of sub-article (2) of Article, be reckoned as part of the sentence. (2) The period spent in hospital due to illness deliberately caused by the prisoner or due to admission to hospital by misleading statement or behaviour of the prisoner shall not be reckoned as part of the sentence. (3) If while serving sentence, a prisoner is deemed by experts to be suffering from some mental disorder or to be irresponsible for his acts, the sentence shall be suspended and the criminal shall be transferred to a proper institution for care or treatment. If the mental disorder or state of irresponsibility of the criminal is of a permanent nature the remaining period of the sentence shall not be carried into effect.