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Assisted Human Reproduction Act

Version of section 47 from 2012-06-29 to 2019-06-08:

The following provision is not in force.

Marginal note:Entry by inspectors

  •  (1) Subject to section 48, an inspector may, for a purpose related to verifying compliance or preventing non-compliance with any of sections 8, 10 and 12, enter any place or conveyance in which the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe that there is any activity, material or information in respect of which any of those sections applies.

  • Marginal note:Inspection

    (2) An inspector entering a place or conveyance may, for a purpose set out in subsection (1),

    • (a) examine any material or information that is relevant to that purpose;

    • (b) require any person in the place or conveyance to produce, in the manner and form requested by the inspector, any such material or information;

    • (c) open and examine any receptacle or package that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds contains such material or information;

    • (d) take, or require any person in the place or conveyance to produce, a sample of such material; and

    • (e) conduct any test or analysis or take any measurement of such material.

  • Marginal note:Examination of information

    (3) In carrying out an inspection, an inspector may, for a purpose set out in subsection (1),

    • (a) examine and make copies of or extracts from any books, documents or other records that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds contain information that is relevant to that purpose;

    • (b) require any person to produce such books, documents or other records for examination or copying;

    • (c) use or cause to be used any computer system to examine information relevant to that purpose that is contained in or available to the computer system;

    • (d) reproduce such information in the form of a printout or other intelligible output for examination or copying; and

    • (e) use or cause to be used any copying equipment.

  • Marginal note:Assistance and information to inspector

    (4) The owner or person in charge of a place entered by an inspector under subsection (1) and every person found in that place shall give the inspector all reasonable assistance and furnish them with any information that they may reasonably require.

  • 2004, c. 2, s. 47
  • 2012, c. 19, s. 728

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