Hong Kong Regulations

MENTAL HEALTH REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5D

Duty to give notice

Where-

   (a)  any postal article or other article or thing addressed to a patient is
        not delivered to the patient under regulation 5A, or any part of a
        letter addressed to a patient is deleted under regulation 5C, the
        medical superintendent shall within 7 days after exercising the power
        conferred under regulation 5A or 5C (as the case may be) give notice
        of the fact to the patient and to the sender of the postal article or
        other article or thing (if known); or

   (b)  any postal article or other article or thing intended to be sent by a
        patient is not permitted to leave the mental hospital under regulation
        5B, or any part of a letter intended to be sent by the patient is
        deleted under regulation 5C, the medical superintendent shall within 7
        days after exercising the power conferred under regulation 5B or 5C
        (as the case may be) give notice of the fact to the patient and to the
        person or body to whom the postal article or other article or thing is
        addressed. (L.N. 298 of 1996; L.N. 419 of 1996)