114Records, &c.

114 Records, &c.

(1)  The controlling authority of an SMHU is to keep appropriate records of the following matters in respect of each forensic patient in the SMHU:

(a) admission and discharge;

(b) the exercise of visitation rights (including any denial or restriction of those rights);

(c) searches, detentions and arrests (whether of visitors or other persons);

(d) seizures of property (whether from the patient or visitors);

(e) police visits;

(f) the exercise of telephone rights (including any denial or restriction of those rights);

(g) the exercise of correspondence rights (including any denial or restriction of those rights).

(2)  [Section 114 Subsection (2) amended by No. 4 of 2023, s. 117, Applied:25 Sep 2023] The controlling authority is to give the Chief Psychiatrist and the Principal Official Visitor –

(a) at the end of each week, a copy of the records for that week; and

(b) such further information about those records and their content as either of them may subsequently require.

(3)  [Section 114 Subsection (3) inserted by No. 4 of 2023, s. 117, Applied:25 Sep 2023] If requested to do so by the Tribunal, the controlling authority is to give the Tribunal –

(a) a copy of the records for a day, or a period, specified in the request; and

(b) such further information about those records and their content as the Tribunal may specify in the request or may subsequently require.