39. Any person who hinders or attempts to hinder, in any way, the exercise of the functions of an inspector or investigator, particularly by deceiving the inspector or investigator by concealment or misrepresentation or, in the case of an inspector, by refusing to provide to the inspector information or a document the inspector is entitled to require, by concealing or destroying a document or property the inspector is entitled to require or examine or by refusing to provide reasonable assistance to the inspector or to accompany the inspector is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 to $50,000 in the case of a natural person and $15,000 to $150,000 in all other cases.
2009, c. 30, s. 39; 2015, c. 25, s. 13; 2021, c. 22021, c. 2, s. 131.