Commentary on Sections Part 2 –Standards Supplementary Section 67: Right of entry: supplementary
177.Subsection (1) allows a person (authorised to enter and inspect premises by virtue of section 66) to inspect and copy relevant documents or records. It also allows inspectors to interview any person working at the premises or any patients or persons receiving health care that consent to be interviewed. Inspectors may also require relevant records or other documents on the premises to be produced for inspection, and where they are stored on computer, for them to be produced in a legible, not encrypted, form. Subsection (4) imposes a requirement to assist an inspector and permits the inspector to take such measurements and photographs and make such recordings as he considers necessary to enable him to exercise his powers under section 66.