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Corrections Management Act 2007
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105 Monitoring protected mail (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.
search—see section 104 (4).