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Public and Environmental Health Act 2011
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85 Requirement to produce documents or things
(1) An authorised officer may require a person to produce:
(a) an authority to do an activity the person holds or ought to hold;
or
(b) a record or other document required to be kept under this Act;
or
(c) a thing in the person's possession.
(2) The officer may:
(a) examine the authority, record, other document or thing; or
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(b) take extracts or notes from or take photographs or make
copies of the authority, record, document or thing; or
(c) seize and remove the record, document or thing.
(3) The officer may not do an act authorised by this section unless the
officer reasonably believes doing so may disclose evidence of or
otherwise relates to an offence against this Act or is otherwise
necessary for this Act.