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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1990 - SECT 290

Withholding of certain correspondence of patients and other persons

290 Withholding of certain correspondence of patients and other persons

(1) A postal article addressed by a patient or person detained in a hospital and delivered by the patient or person for dispatch may be withheld by the medical superintendent if the addressee has given notice in writing to an appropriate person on behalf of the hospital (including the medical superintendent) requesting that communications addressed to the addressee by the patient or person be withheld.
(2) This section does not apply to a postal article addressed by a patient or person detained in a hospital:
(a) to the Minister, or
(b) to a member of Parliament, other than the Minister, or
(c) to the Protective Commissioner or Deputy Protective Commissioner, or
(d) to the governing authority of the hospital, or
(e) to a person or authority having power to discharge the patient or person from the hospital, or
(f) to the Ombudsman or Deputy Ombudsman, or
(g) to a prescribed person.
(3) Except as provided by this section, it is not lawful to prevent or impede the delivery to a patient or person detained in a hospital of a postal article addressed to the patient or person or the delivering for dispatch of a postal article addressed by such a patient or person.



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