Patient may receive and send postal article
385 Patient may receive and send postal article
A person must not prevent or impede in any way—
the delivery, to a patient of an authorised mental health service, of a postal article addressed to the patient; or
the sending of a postal article for a patient of an authorised mental health service.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
Subsection (1)(a) has effect subject to section 386.
A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1)(b) if the addressee of the postal article—
is the subject of a non-contact condition of a forensic order or treatment support order to which the patient is subject; or
has given written notice to the administrator of the service asking that postal articles addressed by the patient to the addressee be withheld.
In this section—
non-contact condition, of a forensic order or treatment support order to which a patient is subject, means a condition of the order that requires the patient not to contact a stated person.
patient means—
an involuntary patient; or
a person receiving treatment and care for a mental illness in an authorised mental health service, other than as an involuntary patient, including a person receiving treatment and care under an advance health directive or with the consent of a personal guardian or attorney.
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