Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998
95Letters and postal articles
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95 Letters and postal articles The person-in-charge of an approved treatment facility must ensure: (a) that a person at the approved treatment facility is permitted to correspond, by post or otherwise, with persons outside the facility without interference or restriction; or (b) that a letter or other postal article that a person at the approved treatment facility wants posted is posted without being opened; or (c) that a letter or other postal article addressed to a person at the approved treatment facility is delivered to the person without being opened and is delivered as soon as reasonably practicable after it is received.