MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2015 - SECT 17 Communication
MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2015 - SECT 17
Communication(1) The responsible person for a mental health facility or community care facility must ensure that a person admitted to or receiving treatment, care or support at the facility—
(a) is given reasonable opportunities and facilities to communicate with people of the person's choice by means other than written communication; and
(b) is given, on request, reasonable opportunities and facilities for preparing written communications and for enclosing the communications in sealed envelopes.
(2) The responsible person for a mental health facility or community care facility must ensure that any written communication addressed to or written by a person admitted to or receiving treatment, care or support at the facility is forwarded, without being opened and without delay, to the person to whom it is addressed.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the responsible person is complying with a limit imposed on communication between the admitted person and other people under section 115 (Limits on communication—forensic mental health order).