Acts and Regulations

N-11 - Nursing Homes Act

Section 25
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Inspectors
25(1)The Minister may appoint persons as inspectors for the purposes of this Act and the regulations.
25(2)The Minister shall issue to each inspector a certificate of his appointment and every inspector shall produce his certificate of appointment upon request.
25(3)An inspector may at any reasonable time enter a nursing home to make an inspection to ensure that the provisions of this Act and the regulations are being complied with.
25(3.1)Before or after attempting to enter a nursing home under subsection (3), an inspector may apply for an entry warrant in accordance with the Entry Warrants Act.
25(4)Repealed: 1986, c.6, s.30
25(5)Upon an inspection under this section, the inspector
(a) is entitled to free access to all books of account, documents, bank accounts, vouchers, correspondence and records, including resident, medical and drug records, that are relevant for the purposes of the inspection; and
(b) may, upon giving a receipt therefor, remove any material referred to in paragraph (a) that relates to the purpose of the inspection for the purpose of making a copy thereof, if such copying is carried out with reasonable dispatch and the material in question is promptly thereafter returned to the person being inspected,
and no person shall obstruct the inspector or withhold or destroy, conceal or refuse to furnish any information or thing required by the inspector for the purposes of the inspection.
25(6)Any copy made as provided in subsection (5) and purporting to be certified by an inspector is admissible in evidence in any action, proceeding or prosecution as prima facie proof of the original without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed the certificate.
1986, c.6, s.30