CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 105 Monitoring protected mail

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 105

    (1)     The director-general may open and search a detainee's protected mail in the detainee's presence if the director-general suspects, on reasonable grounds, that the mail contains—

        (a)     something that may physically harm the addressee; or

        (b)     a prohibited thing.

    (2)     However, the director-general must not read a detainee's protected mail without the detainee's written consent.

    (3)     In this section:

"search"—see section 104 (4).