L-6 - Act respecting lotteries and amusement machines

Section 68 Disposition versions

1993-07-14

68. A member of the personnel of the board authorized by the president and, at the request of the board, any member of a police force authorized for such purposes by the Minister or any member of the Sûreté du Québec may, for an audit or examination, enter at any reasonable time any place in which registers and books must be kept under this Act, the regulations or the rules or any place where activities for which a licence is prescribed or registration is required under this Act, the regulations or the rules are carried on.

A person acting pursuant to the first paragraph may

(a)  audit or examine the registers, books, accounts, vouchers, letters, telegrams or other documents, and the property, apparatus, equipment, processes or material the audit or examination of which may, in his opinion, help him in determining if this Act, the regulations and the rules are being complied with;

(b)  compel a person found on the premises to give him reasonable assistance in his audit or examination and, for that purpose, to accompany him on the premises;

(c)  if, during an audit or examination, he believes, on reasonable grounds, that an offence against this Act, the regulations or the rules has been or is about to be committed, seize and remove anything mentioned in paragraph a that may be used as evidence of the commission of that offence and, where required, immediately put an end, on the conditions he fixes, to the activity with which that offence is connected.

1978, c. 36, s. 68; 1986, c. 95, s. 184; 1993, c. 39, s. 61.

1987-02-15

68. A person authorized by the board may, for an audit or examination, enter at any reasonable time any place in which registers and books must be kept under this Act, the regulations or the rules or any place where activities for which a licence is prescribed or registration is required under this Act, the regulations or the rules are carried on.

The person so authorized by the board may

(a)  audit or examine the registers, books, accounts, vouchers, letters, telegrams or other documents, and the property, apparatus, equipment, processes or material the audit or examination of which may, in his opinion, help him in determining if this Act, the regulations and the rules are being complied with;

(b)  compel a person found on the premises to give him reasonable assistance in his audit or examination and, for that purpose, to accompany him on the premises;

(c)  if, during an audit or examination, he believes, on reasonable grounds, that an offence against this Act, the regulations or the rules has been or is about to be committed, seize and remove anything mentioned in paragraph a that may be used as evidence of the commission of that offence and, where required, immediately put an end, on the conditions he fixes, to the activity with which that offence is connected.

The authorized person shall, on request, identify himself and produce a certificate of his capacity issued by the board.

1978, c. 36, s. 68; 1986, c. 95, s. 184.

1979-01-01

68. A person authorized by the board may, for the application of and compliance with this act, the regulations or the rules, enter at any reasonable time into the places where registers and books are or should be kept in conformity with this act, the regulations or the rules or where anything is done relating to the application of this act, the regulations or the rules.

The person so authorized by the board may

(a)  audit or examine the registers, books, accounts, vouchers, letters, telegrams or other documents, and the property, apparatus, equipment, processes or material the audit or examination of which may, in his opinion, help him in determining if this act, the regulations and the rules are being complied with;

(b)  compel a person found on the premises to give him reasonable assistance in his audit or examination and, for that purpose, to accompany him on the premises;

(c)  if, during an audit or examination, it appears to him that an offence against this act, the regulations or the rules has been or is about to be committed, seize and remove anything mentioned in paragraph a that may be used as evidence of the commission of that offence and, where required, immediately put an end, on the conditions he fixes, to the activity with which that offence is connected.

1978, c. 36, s. 68.