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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 (NO. 26 OF 2014) - SECT 217

Powers of community visitors

    (1)     When visiting a prescribed premises, a community visitor may—

        (a)     subject to subsection (2), enter and inspect any part of the premises; and

        (b)     speak to any person receiving mental health services who wishes to speak to the community visitor; and

        (c)     inspect any document, other than a clinical record, relating to a person receiving mental health services at the prescribed premises or any other record which is required to be kept under this Act or the regulations; and

        (d)     with the consent of a person receiving mental health services, any clinical record relating to the person receiving mental health services.

    (2)     Subsection (1)(a) does not authorise a community visitor to inspect the bedroom of a person receiving mental health services unless the person has given consent.



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