Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992

72 Right to receive visitors and make telephone calls
  • (1) Every patient is entitled, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, to receive visitors and to make telephone calls, except where, in the opinion of the responsible clinician, such a visit or call would be detrimental to the interests of the patient and to his or her treatment.

    (2) Nothing in this section shall limit or affect anything in section 69 or section 70.