MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS
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PART 5
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Powers of entry and inspection
23.—(1) An inspecting officer may exercise all or any of the powers in this section for the purpose of ascertaining whether any requirement of the Act is being complied with.
(2) An inspecting officer may—
- (a) enter and inspect any premises which are used or which the inspecting officer has reasonable cause to believe are used for the purposes of an establishment for massage;
- (b) photograph or film, or make a record or sketches of, any part of the premises, or any person or thing at the premises;
- (c) require any person on those premises to produce or grant access to, without charge, any document, information or article reasonably required for any purpose in subsection (1), which is in the possession or under the control of that person;
- (d) inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, any such document or article;
- (e) subject to section 24(6), take possession of such a document or article if, in the opinion of the inspecting officer—
- (i) the inspection or copying of or extraction from the document or article cannot reasonably be performed without taking possession;
- (ii) the document or article may be interfered with or destroyed unless possession is taken; or
- (iii) the document or article may be required as evidence in any proceedings instituted or commenced under this Act.
(3) The power to require a person to produce or grant access to any document, information or article under subsection (2)(c) includes the power—
