CPA · Residential Tenancies Act
Part 6 — General
64 Inspection
premises of a landlord at any reasonable time to conduct an
inspection to determine if there is compliance with this Act and the
regulations.
(2) If the Director or authorized person has reasonable grounds to
believe that
(a) books, records, documents or other things of a landlord are
located in another person's business premises, and
(b) those books, records, documents or other things are relevant
to determine if there is compliance with this Act or the
regulations,
the Director or authorized person may enter those other business
premises at any reasonable time.
(3) The Director or authorized person may, in the course of an
inspection, request an employee or agent of the landlord at the
business premises referred to in subsection (1) or (2)
(a) to give written or oral replies to questions,
(b) to produce any books, records, documents or other things
and to provide copies of them, and
(c) to provide any other information
to determine if there is compliance with this Act and the
regulations.
(4) The Director or authorized person may in the course of an
inspection inspect, examine and make copies of or temporarily
remove books, records or documents or other things that are
relevant to determine if there is compliance with this Act and the
regulations.
(5) When the Director or authorized person removes any books,
records, documents or other things under subsection (4), the
Director or authorized person
(a) must give a receipt for them to the person from whom they
were taken,
(b) may make copies of, take photographs of or otherwise
record them, and
(c) must, within a reasonable time, return them to the person to
whom the receipt was given.
(6) A landlord and any employee or agent of the landlord must
co-operate with the Director or an authorized person acting under
the authority of this section.