Hong Kong Regulations

MENTAL HEALTH REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5B

Refusal to permit certain postal articles, etc. intended to be sent by a patient to leave the mental hospital

(1) Subject to subregulation (2), a medical superintendent may refuse to
permit any postal article or other article or thing intended to be sent by a
patient to leave the mental hospital if-

   (a)  the person to whom such postal article or other article or thing is
        addressed has given notice in writing to the medical superintendent
        requesting that such should not be sent; or

   (b)  the medical superintendent reasonably considers that such
        postal article or other article or thing is likely to-

        (i)    cause danger to any person; or

        (ii)   cause unnecessary distress to the person to whom it is
               addressed or to any other person, not being a person on the
               staff of the mental hospital.

(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to any postal article or other article or
thing intended to be sent to any of the persons or bodies specified in
regulation 5(2). (L.N. 298 of 1996)