s 40T Monitoring powers for purposes of this Part
40T.—(1) Without affecting Part 11, the Director-General or any authorised officer may, for the purpose of administering or enforcing this Part, exercise all or any of the following powers in relation to any premises:(a) search the premises for any thing that may relate to compliance with this Part; (b) examine any activity conducted on the premises that may relate to compliance with this Part; (c) examine any thing on the premises that may relate to compliance with this Part; (d) take photographs or make video or audio recordings or sketches on the premises of any activity or thing mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c); (e) carry out any tests or inspections that may relate to compliance with this Part; (f) affix or bring onto the premises, with any assistants and workmen that may be necessary, any meter or instrument and take readings from the meter or instrument, or take readings from any meter or instrument on the premises; (g) inspect any document on the premises that may relate to compliance with this Part, and (without payment) take extracts from, or make copies of, any such document; (h) take onto the premises any equipment and materials that the Director-General or authorised officer requires for the purpose of exercising powers in relation to the premises; (i) seize any thing found during the exercise of monitoring powers on the premises which the Director-General or authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds affords evidence of a contravention of this Part. (2) The Director-General or any authorised officer may, in addition to the powers in subsection (1) —(a) compel any person who is able to operate any equipment at the premises to do so for the purpose of enabling the Director-General or authorised officer to ascertain whether the equipment, or a disk, tape or other storage device that can be used or associated with the equipment, contains information that is relevant to assessing compliance with this Part; and (b) if any information that is relevant to assessing compliance with this Part is found in the exercise of the power conferred under paragraph (a) —(i) produce, or compel the production of, the information in documentary form, and keep or copy the documents so produced; or (ii) transfer, or compel the transfer of, the information to a disk, tape or other storage device, and remove it from the premises.[Act 24 of 2021 wef 01/10/2022]