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Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · s 88

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s 88Power of Inspector to enter and inspect

(1)

An Inspector shall have the power to enter and inspect at any time any licensed or registered private healthcare facility or any premises which he suspects or has reason to believe to be used as a private healthcare facility or any other premises in or from which private healthcare services are provided without a licence or a certificate of registration.

(2)

In the course of an inspection under this section the Inspector may—

(a)

inspect, test and examine any apparatus, appliance, equipment or instrument used or found in the facility or premises;

(b)

inspect, test, examine, take, remove and detain samples of blood, blood products, human tissue or fluid or any product of the human body, dialysate, chemicals or pharmaceuticals found in the facility or premises;

(c)

inspect, test, examine, take and remove all containers, articles and other things that the Inspector reasonably believes to contain or to have contained blood or blood

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products, human tissue or fluid or any product of the human body, dialysate, chemicals or pharmaceuticals;

(d)

inspect any test or procedure or operation performed or carried out to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Act; and

(e)

inspect, make copies of and take extracts from any book, document, record or electronic material relating to the private healthcare facility or service or the premises.