58Entry without consent or warrant

58 Entry without consent or warrant

(1) Subject to subsection (2), for the purpose of monitoring compliance with this Act or the regulations, an inspector may do all or any of the following—

(a) enter and search, at any time between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., any premises at which a licensee is conducting a business of operating a rooming house;

(b) seize or secure against interference any thing that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds to be connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations that is found in or on the premises;

S. 58(1)(c) amended by No. 48/2018 s. 71(1).

(c) inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, any document kept in or on the premises;

S. 58(1)(d) inserted by No. 48/2018 s. 71(2).

(d) make any still or moving image, audio recording or audio-visual recording.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—

premises excludes any room of a rooming house in which a person resides, other than a room in the rooming house in which the rooming house operator resides and from which the rooming house operator operates the rooming house.