29. Every holder of a function, office or employment with an institution shall, when a patient under close treatment hands to him a writing addressed to an advocate, notary or physician, the Public Curator, the Administrative Tribunal of Québec, one of its members, a member of the National Assembly or the Public Protector, send such writing immediately to its addressee without taking cognizance of its contents.
The same applies to any writing sent to a patient under close treatment by one of the persons enumerated in the first paragraph.
1972, c. 44, s. 29; 1992, c. 21, s. 276; 1997, c. 43, s. 469.