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Mental Health Act 2007
132Obligations to facilitate exercise of functions by official visitors
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#### 132 Obligations to facilitate exercise of functions by official visitors
132 Obligations to facilitate exercise of functions by official visitors
(cf 1990 Act, s 231)
> > (1) The medical superintendent of a declared mental health facility or the administrator of a private mental health facility must do the following for the purposes of any visit by official visitors—
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> > > (a) allow the official visitors to have access to and to inspect every part of the facility,
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> > > (b) permit the official visitors to see and to interview each patient or person detained in the facility or each affected person under a community treatment order being treated by the facility,
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> > > (c) give full and true answers to the best of their knowledge to all questions that the official visitors ask in relation to the facility, the patients and other persons or affected persons,
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> > > (d) produce to the official visitors any registers, books, records, orders, certificates, returns and other documents relating to the admission, care, treatment and control of the patients and other persons and the discharge of persons required by the official visitors.
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> > (2) The administrator of a private mental health facility must, at the end of each month, report in writing to the medical superintendent as to the functions exercised under this section by the administrator during that month.