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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - General status and specific rights - Specific rights of care recipients

56: Right to receive visitors and communicate orally with persons outside facility

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"You have the right to see visitors and make phone calls at reasonable times."

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If you are a care recipient, you have the right to receive visitors and talk to people outside the facility where you live. You can do this at reasonable times and intervals, unless the care manager thinks it would be bad for you or your care. The care manager must have a good reason to stop you from seeing visitors or talking to people outside the facility. You still have the rights given to you in section 53 and section 54, and this section does not limit those rights.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
General status and specific rights: Specific rights of care recipients

56Right to receive visitors and communicate orally with persons outside facility

  1. Every care recipient is entitled, at reasonable times and at reasonable intervals, to receive visitors and to communicate orally with persons outside the facility, except where the care manager has reasonable grounds for believing that a visit or communication would be detrimental to the interests of the care recipient and to his or her care.

  2. Nothing in this section limits anything in section 53 or section 54.

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