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Chapter 2Assessment, Treatment and Management of patients
Part 5Treatment and Management of Forensic Patients
Division 4Visits
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A forensic patient has – the right to receive visitors; and the right to refuse to receive visitors.
However, the rights conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised only in accordance with this Act. The exercise of visiting rights under this Division is, for non-police visits, reviewable by the Tribunal – see Division 2 of Part 3 of Chapter 3. The Chief Psychiatrist has power to intervene in respect of the exercise of such rights in circumstances where the Chief Psychiatrist is not the relevant decision-maker– see section 147.
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