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Mail searches—consequences

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Division 3.3Contact—monitoring mail

26 Mail searches—consequences

(1)

The director-general must deliver a patient’s mail searched under section 25 (Monitoring mail) to the addressee as soon as practicable.

(2)

Subsection (1) is subject to section 53 (Seizing property—general).

(3)

If a search of the patient’s mail reveals information about the commission of a serious offence, the director-general must give the information to the chief police officer.

(4)

In this section:

serious offence means an offence punishable by imprisonment for 5 years or longer, and includes an offence in another jurisdiction that would be a serious offence if committed in the ACT.

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