8.1(1)The Minister may appoint in writing inspectors to inspect, examine and audit books, accounts, reports and medical records maintained in offices of medical practitioners or oral and maxillofacial surgeons respecting persons who are receiving or have received services and in respect of which services claims for payment have been submitted under the medical services plan.

8.1(2)The Minister shall furnish every inspector with a certificate of the inspector’s appointment and, on entering any place for the purposes of inspection, an inspector shall, on demand, produce the certificate to the person in charge of the place.

8.1(3)A certificate that purports to be an appointment under this section is admissible in evidence without proof of signature and is prima facie evidence that its holder has been duly appointed under subsection (1).

8.1(4)For the purpose of enforcing this Act and the regulations, an inspector may

8.1(5)An inspector removing a book, account, report or medical record from premises under subsection (4) shall first provide a receipt for it to the person in charge of the premises and shall promptly return the book, account, report or medical record to the premises after completion of the making of copies or taking of extracts, as the case may be.

8.1(6)Copies of or extracts from books, accounts, reports or medical records removed from premises under this Act and certified by the person making the copies or taking the extracts as being true copies of or extracts from the originals are admissible in evidence to the same extent as, and have the same evidentiary value as, the books, accounts, reports or medical records of which they are copies or from which they are extracts.

8.1(1)The Minister may appoint in writing inspectors to inspect, examine and audit books, accounts, reports and medical records maintained in offices of medical practitioners or oral and maxillofacial surgeons respecting persons who are receiving or have received services and in respect of which services claims for payment have been submitted under the medical services plan.

8.1(2)The Minister shall furnish every inspector with a certificate of the inspector’s appointment and, on entering any place for the purposes of inspection, an inspector shall, on demand, produce the certificate to the person in charge of the place.

8.1(3)A certificate that purports to be an appointment under this section is admissible in evidence without proof of signature and is prima facie evidence that its holder has been duly appointed under subsection (1).

8.1(4)For the purpose of enforcing this Act and the regulations, an inspector may

8.1(5)An inspector removing a book, account, report or medical record from premises under subsection (4) shall first provide a receipt for it to the person in charge of the premises and shall promptly return the book, account, report or medical record to the premises after completion of the making of copies or taking of extracts, as the case may be.

8.1(6)Copies of or extracts from books, accounts, reports or medical records removed from premises under this Act and certified by the person making the copies or taking the extracts as being true copies of or extracts from the originals are admissible in evidence to the same extent as, and have the same evidentiary value as, the books, accounts, reports or medical records of which they are copies or from which they are extracts.

8.1(1)The Minister may appoint in writing inspectors to inspect, examine and audit books, accounts, reports and medical records maintained in offices of medical practitioners or oral and maxillofacial surgeons respecting persons who are receiving or have received services and in respect of which services claims for payment have been submitted under the medical services plan.

8.1(2)The Minister shall furnish every inspector with a certificate of the inspector’s appointment and, on entering any place for the purposes of inspection, an inspector shall, on demand, produce the certificate to the person in charge of the place.

8.1(3)A certificate that purports to be an appointment under this section is admissible in evidence without proof of signature and is prima facie evidence that its holder has been duly appointed under subsection (1).

8.1(4)For the purpose of enforcing this Act and the regulations, an inspector may

8.1(5)An inspector removing a book, account, report or medical record from premises under subsection (4) shall first provide a receipt for it to the person in charge of the premises and shall promptly return the book, account, report or medical record to the premises after completion of the making of copies or taking of extracts, as the case may be.

8.1(6)Copies of or extracts from books, accounts, reports or medical records removed from premises under this Act and certified by the person making the copies or taking the extracts as being true copies of or extracts from the originals are admissible in evidence to the same extent as, and have the same evidentiary value as, the books, accounts, reports or medical records of which they are copies or from which they are extracts.