Mental Health Act 2013

The controlling authority of an SMHU is to keep appropriate records of the following matters in respect of each forensic patient in the SMHU:admission and discharge; the exercise of visitation rights (including any denial or restriction of those rights); searches, detentions and arrests (whether of visitors or other persons); seizures of property (whether from the patient or visitors); police visits; the exercise of telephone rights (including any denial or restriction of those rights); the exercise of correspondence rights (including any denial or restriction of those rights).

The controlling authority is to give the Chief Psychiatrist and the Principal Official Visitor – at the end of each week, a copy of the records for that week; and such further information about those records and their content as either of them may subsequently require.

If requested to do so by the Tribunal, the controlling authority is to give the Tribunal – a copy of the records for a day, or a period, specified in the request; and such further information about those records and their content as the Tribunal may specify in the request or may subsequently require.