(1) Every district inspector, and every official visitor, shall, when visiting any hospital or service for the purposes of this Act, have access to every part of the hospital or service and to every person in it, whether detained or not.
(2) On every visit by a district inspector or an official visitor to any hospital or service for the purposes of this Act, there shall be laid before the district inspector or the official visitor by the responsible clinicians—
(a) such of the registers and records required to be kept by or under this Act, and such orders and other documents relating to any of the patients, as the district inspector or the official visitor requires to be so produced; and
(3) The district inspector or the official visitor may sign any such registers, records, and books under the last entry.
Compare: 1969 No 16 s 57
Section 97(1): amended, on 1 April 2000, by section 51(1) of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 140).
Section 97(2): amended, on 1 April 2000, by section 51(2) of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 140).