26. A member of the Commission or a person in its employment may, at any reasonable time or at any time in an emergency, enter any facility maintained by an institution to consult on the premises the record relating to the case of a child and make copies thereof. Where the member is exercising the responsibility provided for in paragraph b of section 23, the member may also consult the record of a child regarding whom an intervention has ended, including because the child has reached 18 years of age.
The institution shall, on request, transmit a copy of the record to the Commission.
In addition, every person and every body that treats or has treated a child who is or has been the subject of an intervention under this Act or whose parents are or have been the subject of such an intervention or that provides or has provided services to such a child or to his parents must give the member of the Commission or the person in its employment, on request, a copy of any information from a record relating to the case of a child and that is necessary for the conduct of an investigation under paragraph b of section 23.
1977, c. 20, s. 26; 1984, c. 4, s. 12; 1986, c. 95, s. 247; 1989, c. 53, s. 12; 1992, c. 21, s. 215, s. 375; 1994, c. 23, s. 23; 2017, c. 18, s. 12; 2022, c. 112022, c. 11, s. 1511.