Therapeutic Substances Act, 1932

Powers of inspectors.

16.—(1) An inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter any premises specified in a manufacturer's licence and to inspect such premises and the plant and the process of manufacture and the means employed for standardising and testing the therapeutic substances manufactured thereon and to take samples thereof.

(2) An inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter any premises where any therapeutic substance imported under an import licence is stocked and to inspect the premises and the means (if any) employed for testing such substance and to take samples thereof.

(3) An inspector shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter any premises where a person who is the holder of a research licence keeps any therapeutic substances and inspect such premises and investigate the manner in which the substances are used and to take samples thereof.

(4) If any person obstructs or impedes, an inspector in the exercise of any of the powers conferred on an inspector under this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(5) In this section the expression “inspector” means a person authorised in writing by the Minister to exercise the powers conferred on an inspector by this section.