Medicines and Allied Substances
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or the premises of a manufacturer, importer, exporter,
seller or distributor of any medicine or allied substance
or any person licensed or regulated under this Act,
including a private dwelling, where information or
documents which may be relevant to an inspection
may be kept or which are being used for the commission
of an offence under this Act;
(b) search any person on the premises if the inspector has
reasonable grounds to believe that the person has
possession of an article, document, record, medicine
or allied substance that has a bearing on an
investigation, except that a person shall only be
searched by a person of the same sex;
(c) examine any document, record, book, article, medicine
or allied substance found on the premises that has a
bearing on an inspection or investigation;
(d) require information to be given about any document,
record, book, article, medicine or allied substance in
any premises by—
(i) the owner of the premises;
(ii) the person in control of the premises;
(iii) any person who has control of the document,
record, book, article, medicine or allied
substance; or
(iv) any other person who may have the information;
(e) seize any document, book, record, article, computer or
other electronic storage device, medicine or allied
substance that has a bearing on an inspection or
investigation or is used for purposes contrary to the
provisions of this Act;
(f) take samples of any medicine or allied substance as may
be necessary for the purposes of testing, examination
or analysis;
(g) take extracts from, or make copies of, any book, record
or document found on the premises that has a bearing
on an inspection or investigation;
(h) use any computer system or any other electronic device
on the premises, or require the assistance of any
person on the premises to use that computer system
or electronic device, to—
(i) search any data contained in, or available to the