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CurrentRequests to see community visitors
Part 8Further protections for persons with mental illness
Division 2Community visitor scheme
53 Requests to see community visitors
(1)
A patient or a guardian, medical agent, relative, carer or friend of a patient or any person who is providing support to a patient under this Act may make a request to see a community visitor.
(2)
If such a request is made to the director of a treatment centre in which the patient is an inpatient, the director must advise a community visitor of the request within 2 days after receipt of the request.
This Act’s bill:Second reading speech
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