The Mental Health (Definition of Specified Person: Correspondence) (Scotland) Regulations 2005
Section 281 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13) provides that a postal packet sent to or by a specified person may in certain circumstances be withheld by the managers of the hospital. Section 281(9) defines a specified person as meaning a person who–is detained in a hospital; andmeets such other conditions, or in relation to whom such other conditions are met, as may be specified in regulations.