33BPowers of inspectors

33B Powers of inspectors

33B Powers of inspectors

(1) An inspector may at any reasonable time enter and inspect any premises for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not a provision of this Act, or any regulation made under this Act, is being or has been complied with or contravened.

(2) While on premises entered under this section or under the authority of a search warrant under section 33G, an inspector may do one or more of the following—

(a) inspect—

(i) all tissue and blood products kept on those premises, or anything the inspector reasonably believes to be tissue or blood products, and

(ii) all containers that the inspector reasonably believes to contain or to have contained tissue or blood products, and

(iii) all equipment kept on the premises that the inspector reasonably believes to be or to have been used for processing, packing or storing tissue or blood products,

(b) take and remove for analysis or testing a sample of any tissue or blood product kept on the premises, or anything the inspector reasonably believes to be tissue or blood products,

(c) inspect any records kept on those premises and require any person whom the inspector reasonably believes to have custody or control of those records to produce them for inspection,

(d) require any person on those premises to answer questions or otherwise furnish information in relation to a contravention of a provision of this Act or the regulations,

(e) make and take away copies of the whole or any part of any records or other information,

(f) take away and retain, for such period as may be reasonably necessary, any records or other information, or any part of them, in order to make copies of them,

(g) take away and retain any records or other information, if the inspector concerned reasonably believes that the records or information are evidence of an offence against this Act or a regulation made under this Act, until proceedings for the offence have been disposed of,

(h) seize and detain—

(i) any tissue or blood product, or anything the inspector reasonably believes to be tissue or a blood product, in relation to which the inspector reasonably believes an offence against this Act or against a regulation under this Act is being or has been committed, and