166
CurrentPersons assisting inspectors
Part 9Securing Compliance
Division 3Powers relating to entry
Subdivision 1General powers of entry
166 Persons assisting inspectors
A person (the assistant), including an interpreter, may accompany the inspector entering a workplace under section 163 to assist the inspector if the inspector considers the assistance is necessary.
The assistant – may do the things at the place and in the manner that the inspector reasonably requires to assist the inspector to exercise compliance powers; but must not do anything that the inspector does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant.
Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all purposes to have been done by the inspector.
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