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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Inspections and inquiries - Inspections, investigations, and inquiries by district inspectors - Inspections

96: Inspectors' access to persons and documents

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"Inspectors can visit and talk to people, and see documents, to check facilities are following the law."

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When you are in a facility, a district inspector can visit to check things. They must be allowed to go to every part of the facility and talk to every person there. You might be a care recipient or you might not be, but the inspector still needs to be able to talk to you. The inspector is visiting for a reason related to the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act.

The care manager has to show the district inspector certain documents. These documents include records about care recipients, like their court order and care plan. The care manager also has to show the inspector any communications or items that were withheld under section 57.

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Inspections, investigations, and inquiries by district inspectors: Inspections

96Inspectors' access to persons and documents

  1. A district inspector who visits a facility for the purposes of this Act must be given access to every part of the facility and to every person in it, whether or not that person is a care recipient under this Act.

  2. The care manager must present to the district inspector the following documents:

  3. every record relating to a care recipient, including the care recipient's court order and care and rehabilitation plan:
    1. every communication or item withheld by the care manager under section 57.

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