26. The Minister or any person designated by the Minister may, for the purpose of ascertaining compliance with this Act,(1) require any information or document, examine the document and make a copy or photocopy of it;
(2) require, where applicable, that information or a copy of a document be sent, in particular, by mail, by fax machine, by way of electronic filing or on a computer-generated medium; and
(3) enter, at any reasonable time, any establishment of a cooperative or federation of cooperatives to which this Act applies.
Every copy or photocopy of a document certified by the Minister as a true copy or photocopy of the original is admissible in evidence and has the same probative force as the original.