Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not prevent or impede in any way—
(a) the delivery, to a patient in a high security unit, of a postal article addressed to the patient; or
(b) the sending of a postal article for a patient in a high security unit.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1)(a) has effect subject to section 350.
(3) A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1)(b) if the addressee of the postal article has given written notice to the administrator of the high security unit asking that postal articles addressed by or for the patient to the addressee be withheld.
(4) However, subsection (3) does not apply to a postal article addressed by or for a patient in a high security unit to any of the following persons—
(a) a member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth or a State;
(b) the Mental Health Court;
(c) the tribunal;
(d) the director;
(e) a community visitor under the Guardianship and Administration Act 2000;
(f) the Health Quality and Complaints Commission under the Health Quality and Complaints Commission Act 2006;
(g) the ombudsman appointed under the Ombudsman Act 2001;
(h) another person prescribed under a regulation for this paragraph.