New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 231

231 Access to be given to official visitors and other matters

(1) The medical superintendent of a hospital (other than an authorised hospital), the administrator of an authorised hospital or Director of the health care agency, as the case may be, must:

(a) allow the official visitors to have access to and to inspect every part of the hospital or health care agency, as the case may be, and

(b) permit the official visitors to see and to interview each informal patient at the hospital, each patient or person detained in the hospital or each affected person under a community counselling order or a community treatment order being treated by the health care agency, and

(c) give full and true answers to the best of the medical superintendent's, administrator's or Director's knowledge to all questions which the official visitors may ask in relation to the hospital or health care agency, the patients and other persons or affected persons, and

(d) produce to the official visitors such registers, books, records, orders, certificates and other documents relating to the admission, care, treatment and control of the patients and other persons and the discharge of persons from the hospital as may be required by the official visitors, and

(e) furnish all such returns relating to any matter referred to in paragraph (d) as may be required by the official visitors.

(2) The administrator of an authorised hospital must, at the end of each month, report in writing to the medical superintendent as to the functions exercised under this section by the administrator during that month.