Acts and Regulations

2008-54 - Designated Materials

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Inspections
52(1)At any reasonable time and upon presentation of proof of identification, an inspector may
(a) enter any land or premises, other than a dwelling house, and conduct an inspection of the land, premises or personal property where or with which any person distributes, supplies, packages, labels, uses, stores, collects, transports, recycles, processes, disposes of or otherwise handles a designated material,
(b) conduct an audit of records maintained by or on behalf of a registrant, or
(c) examine any record maintained by or on behalf of a registrant.
52(2)At the request of an inspector, a person in charge of land or premises entered under this section shall produce for inspection all records maintained by or on behalf of a registrant.
52(3)An inspector may remove any record produced as a result of a request or discovered during the inspection for the purpose of making copies or taking extracts, together with any equipment, hardware or other thing necessary to enable access to the records.
52(4)If the inspector consents, the person in charge of land, premises or personal property being inspected may provide the inspector with copies of any record or other thing for the purposes of removal instead of providing the original.
52(5)An inspector removing any record, equipment, hardware or other thing or copies of them under subsection (3) or (4) shall first provide a receipt for them to the person in charge of the land, premises or personal property and, subject to subsection (7), shall promptly return them to the person in charge after completion of making copies or taking extracts.
52(6)Copies of or extracts from any record or other thing removed from land or premises under this Regulation 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 record or other thing of which they are copies or from which they are extracts.
52(7)An inspector may seize and detain any record, equipment, hardware or other thing discovered which the inspector believes on reasonable grounds may afford evidence of the commission of an offence under the Act or this Regulation during an inspection under subsection (1).
52(8)No person shall obstruct or hinder a person conducting an inspection under this section.