47Licensee or specified persons to produce documents and answer questions

47 Licensee or specified persons to produce documents and answer questions

(1) For the purpose of monitoring compliance with this Act or the regulations, an inspector may, at a time and place specified by the inspector, require a licensee, a specified person or other person with control over relevant documents and information—

(a) to answer, orally or in writing, any questions put by the inspector relating to the licensee's business of operating a rooming house; or

(b) to supply, orally or in writing, information required by the inspector relating to that business; or

(c) to produce to the inspector specified documents or documents of a specified class relating to that business.

(2) In this section—

specified person, in relation to a business of operating a rooming house, means—

(a) a former licensee; or

(b) in the case of a body corporate that is or was a licensee, an officer of the body corporate.