Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979)Chapter 3 : Offences and the Control Over Artificial Teeth31. Appointment, duties and powers of inspectors |
| (1) | The council may appoint inspectors to exercise and perform the powers and functions referred to in subsection (5). |
| (2) | An inspector shall be furnished with a certificate, signed by the registrar, stating that such person has been appointed as an inspector under this Act. |
| (3) | Any inspector shall at the request of any person affected by the exercise or the performance by such inspector of any power or function referred to in subsection (5) exhibit the certificate referred to in subsection (2) to such person. |
| (4) | No inspector shall, except for the purposes of this Act or when required to do so as a witness in a court of law, disclose any information relating to any person, partnership, association, juristic person or business acquired in the performance of his or her duties. |
| (5) | An inspector may for the purposes of this Act— |
| (a) | without previous notice, at any time enter any registered dental laboratory or any other premises where he or she has reasonable cause to believe that any act specially pertaining to the profession of dental technician or dental technologist is being performed or has been performed, and make such examination and enquiry as he or she deems necessary; |
| (b) | while he or she is on the premises or at any other time require from any person the production, then and there, or at a time and place determined by the inspector, of any book, document or thing which by this Act is required to be kept or exhibited or which relates to or which he or she has reasonable cause to suspect relates to matters dealt with in this Act and which is or has been on the premises or in the possession or custody or under the control of any such person or his or her employee; |
| (c) | at any time and at any place require from any person who has or is believed to have the possession or custody or control of any book, document or thing relating to any matter dealt with in this Act, the production thereof then and there, or at a time and place determined by the inspector; and |
| (d) | examine and make extracts from and copies of any such book or document, and may require from any person an explanation of any entry therein and may attach any such book, document or thing as in his or her opinion may afford evidence of an offence under this Act. |