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Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014

Procedural, administrative, and miscellaneous matters - Matters relating to management or administration - Visits by specified office holders

128: Right of specified office holders to visit residences

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"Important people can visit homes to check on residents and make sure they are safe"

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A specified office holder can enter a residence to check it and the people living there. They can tell the residence manager what they find. You should know that a specified office holder is someone like a member of Parliament, a Judge, or an Ombudsman. They can talk to the residents about their treatment or if they have a complaint. The residence manager must write down what the specified office holder says and keep a record of it.

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Matters relating to management or administration: Visits by specified office holders

128Right of specified office holders to visit residences

  1. A specified office holder may, whenever the office holder considers it appropriate, enter a residence and examine it and the condition of the residents, and may inform the residence manager of his or her observations.

  2. The residence manager must ensure that any observations of a specified office holder are recorded and that a permanent record of those observations is kept at the residence.

  3. A specified office holder is not entitled, under subsection (1), to communicate with any resident except in relation to—

  4. his or her treatment in the residence; or
    1. a complaint that the resident makes about that treatment.

      1. For the purposes of this section, each of the following is a specified office holder:

      2. a member of Parliament:
        1. a Judge or an officer of the High Court or another court:
          1. an Ombudsman:
            1. the Privacy Commissioner:
              1. the Health and Disability Commissioner:
                1. a Human Rights Commissioner.

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