19Searches to monitor compliance with Act

19 Searches to monitor compliance with Act

(1) Subject to this section, to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to do so for the purpose of finding out whether levy is payable under this Act, an inspector, with any necessary help, may enter, at any time during ordinary working hours on any day, any premises that the inspector has reasonable cause to believe are premises at which any thing relating to the importation, manufacture or disposal of chemical products is kept and may do any one or more of the following: (a) search the premises and any thing found at the premises; (b) inspect any document kept at the premises; (c) seize any such document and remove it from the premises. (2) An inspector may not, under subsection (1), enter premises that are a residence unless the occupier of the premises has consented to the entry. (3) An inspector may not exercise any powers under subsection (1) in relation to premises if: (a) the occupier of the premises has required the inspector to produce his or her identity card for inspection by the occupier; and (b) the inspector fails to comply with the requirement.