2019
Finance
No. 1/2019
(3) The remuneration payable to the staff and agents of the AMU
shall be payable from the budget of the AMU referred to in section 100A(4)
or by the institution from which any such staff was seconded, and no fee,
commission or other similar charge shall be levied from the property of
which the AMU is the receiver or custodian to pay for the work that its
staff or agents do.
100D Inspectors and their powers
(1) The Director-General may appoint any member of the AMU’s
staff and any agent of the AMU to be an inspector for the purposes of this
Chapter.
(2) The Director-General shall furnish each inspector with a
certificate stating that he or she has been appointed as an inspector, and the
inspector shall, on demand, exhibit the certificate to any person affected
by the exercise of the inspector’s powers.
(3) An inspector may, under warrant (unless the inspector believes
on reasonable grounds that the delay in obtaining a warrant would defeat
the purpose of this subsection, and that the inspector believes he or she
would obtain the warrant from a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace on the
grounds specified in paragraphs (i) or (ii) below, if he or she applied for
one) enter any land or premises that is believed on reasonable grounds
to be part of property of which the AMU is appointed the receiver or
custodian under this Act, or in or upon which it is believed on reasonable
grounds that there may be property of which the AMU is appointed the
receiver or custodian under this Act.
(4) After informing the person in charge or control of the premises
of the purpose of his or her visit, an inspector may do any or all of the
following—
(a) make such examination and inquiry as he or she considers
appropriate;
(b) question any person who is employed in or at the premises;
(c) require any person who is employed in or at the premises
to produce any book, account, notice, record, list or other
document;
(d) require from any person an explanation of any entry made
in any book, account, notice, record, list or other document
found upon any person or premises referred to in paragraph
(c);
(e) examine and make copies of any book, account, notice,
record, list or other document;
(f) take possession of any book, account, notice, record, list or
other document:
Provided that such book, account, notice, record, list or other
document shall be retained only so long as may be necessary for the
purpose of any examination, investigation, trial or inquiry arising out of
any contravention of this Act;
(5) In a search under subsection (4), an inspector may be
accompanied and assisted by one or more police officers or other persons,
and those persons shall have the same powers as the inspector under that
subsection.
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