Consumer Protection Act s. 147

(1) An inspector who has reasonable grounds to believe that a
person has committed an offence under this Act or the regulations
may, after explaining to the person or to the person's agent that the
inspector wishes to enter the person's business premises for the
purposes of carrying out an investigation, request permission to
enter the business premises.
(2) If a person permits an inspector to enter business premises for
the purposes of an investigation, the inspector may, with the
permission of the person, inspect, examine and make copies of or
temporarily remove books, records, documents or other things that
are relevant to determine if an offence has been committed under
this Act or the regulations.
(3) When an inspector removes any books, records, documents or
other things under subsection (2), the inspector
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(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,
(c) must, within a reasonable time, return anything that has
been copied to the person to whom the receipt was given,
and
(d) must return everything else that was removed to the person
to whom the receipt was given within a reasonable time
after the investigation and any prosecution resulting from
the investigation is concluded.
1998 cF-1.05 s147

MHHS Minimum Housing and Health Standards

147 Investigation