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General powers after entering places

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Part 15Supervision and protection of co‑operatives
Division 1Supervision and inspection

415 General powers after entering places

(1)

This section applies to an inspector who enters a place under this Part.

(2)

For monitoring or enforcing compliance with this Act, the inspector may —

(a)

search any part of the place; and

(b)

examine, inspect, photograph or film anything on the place; and

(c)

copy a document on the place; and

(d)

take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the inspector reasonably requires for exercising a power under this Part; and

(e)

require a person in the place to give the inspector reasonable help to exercise the powers mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (d).

(3)

A person required to give reasonable help under subsection (2)(e) must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $2 000.

(4)

If the help is required to be given to an inspector by —

(a)

answering a question; or

(b)

producing a document, other than a document required to be kept under this Act,

it is a reasonable excuse for the person to fail to answer the question, or produce the document, if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.

[Section 415 amended: No. 7 of 2016 s. 158.]

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