Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE ACT 1989 - SECT 179

    (1)     In this section:

"approved treatment centre"–see section 121.

"treatment" means treatment of persons for drug dependence.

    (2)     A treatment centre inspector may, at any reasonable hour of the day or night, with the assistance and by the force that is necessary and reasonable, enter the premises of an approved treatment centre, and may—

        (a)     inspect the premises and any facilities provided at, or equipment used at, the premises for, or in connection with, the provision of treatment or accommodation at the centre; or

        (b)     inspect any prescribed book, record, or document kept on the premises relating to such treatment or accommodation, or otherwise relating to the conduct of the centre in relation to patients referred to the centre under division 9.3; or

        (c)     require the occupier of the premises to produce any prescribed book, record or document, or to give to the inspector any prescribed information in his or her possession relating to such treatment or accommodation or otherwise relating to the conduct of the centre in relation to such patients;

for the purpose of ensuring that there are no grounds for cancellation, under section 154 or 155, of the centre's approval.