Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
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51 Opt-out register
(1) The primary non-legal mental health advocacy service provider must establish, maintain and manage a register to be known as the opt-out register—
(a) to record the details of consumers who do not wish to be offered or provided with non‑legal mental health advocacy services; and
(b) to manage notifications made in respect of consumers who have instructed that they do not want to receive non-legal mental health advocacy services.
(2) The primary non-legal mental health advocacy service provider must publish on its website information regarding how a consumer may indicate their preferences regarding the provision of non-legal mental health advocacy services.
(3) The Chief Office must publish the information referred to in subsection (2) on the Department's website.
Part 2.4—Right to communicate