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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending - Management of residents - Restrictions on contacts with persons outside residence

62: Visits from, or oral communication with, certain persons may be excluded

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"Some visitors may not be allowed to see you if you live in a special residence."

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If you are a resident in a special residence, the person in charge of the residence can stop you from having visits from certain people. They can also stop you from talking to certain people if they think it might be bad for you or someone else, or if it might cause problems in the residence. The person in charge makes this decision if they have good reasons to believe it is necessary.

The person in charge must be careful about who visits you, especially if the visitor is under 18 years old. They will only let someone under 18 visit you if they think it will help you get better.

If someone special, mentioned in section 46(3), wants to visit you, the person in charge cannot say no. However, if the visit is going to cause problems with the residence's programme, they can ask the visitor to come back at a more suitable time that works for everyone. If the person in charge makes a decision about who can visit you, they have to write it down in a special book.

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Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Management of residents: Restrictions on contacts with persons outside residence

62Visits from, or oral communication with, certain persons may be excluded

  1. The residence manager may decline to permit a resident to receive visits from any person or to communicate orally with any person if there are reasonable grounds for believing that such visits or communications are likely to be harmful to the resident or to any other person or to the orderly functioning of the residence.

  2. The residence manager must not permit a person who is, or who appears to be, under the age of 18 years to visit a resident unless the manager considers that the visit is likely to meet the resident's rehabilitative needs.

  3. Visits from, or oral communications with, a person specified in section 46(3) may not be declined, but any visit that, in the opinion of the residence manager unduly interferes with the programme of the residence, may be rescheduled to a reasonable time and date agreed on by the manager, the visitor, and the resident.

  4. Any decision taken under subsection (1) or (2) must be recorded in a register as prescribed in guidelines or instructions.