medicines and related substances control act 101 of 1965

2427. Analysts, pharmacologists and pathologistsThe Director-General may grant such authority to such analysts, pharmacologists and pathologists as he mayconsider necessary for the proper enforcement of this Act.28. Powers of inspectors(1) An inspector may at all reasonable times-(a)enter upon-(i)(ii)any place or premises from which-(aa) a person authorised under this Act to compound and dispense medicines orscheduled substances;(bb) the holder of a licence as contemplated in section 22C (1) (b);(cc) the holder of a certificate of registration of a medicine, conduct business.any place, premises, vessel or aircraft if he or she suspects on reasonable grounds that anoffence in terms of this Act has been or is being committed thereon or therein or that anattempt has been made or is being made to commit such an offence thereon or therein;(iii) any private dwelling, with the consent of the occupier or under the authority of a warrantissued in terms of subsection (5) or without a warrant in terms of subsection (6);(b)(c)inspect any medicine or Scheduled substance, any book, record or documents that the inspectorbelieves on reasonable grounds contains any information relevant to the administration orenforcement of this Act;seize any book, record, documents or medicine or scheduled substance or take so many samples ofany such medicine or scheduled substance as he or she may consider necessary for the purpose oftesting, examination or analysis in terms of this Act;(2) Any sample taken in terms of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) shall be taken in accordance with theprescribed methods and in the presence of the person who is in charge of such medicine or Scheduledsubstance, or if there is no such person or if he is absent for any reason, in the presence of any otherwitness, shall forthwith be packed and sealed and suitably labelled or marked in such manner as its naturemay permit and shall then be transmitted to an analyst, pharmacologist or pathologist together with acertificate in the prescribed form signed by such inspector and a copy of the aforesaid certificate shall behanded or transmitted by registered post to the owner or seller of such medicine or Scheduled substance orhis agent.(3) The analyst, pharmacologist or pathologist to whom a sample has been transmitted in terms of theprovisions of subsection (2) shall with all convenient speed test, examine or analyse the sample deliveredto him, and the result of the test, examination or analysis shall be stated in a certificate in the prescribedform.(4) The owner of the medicine or Scheduled substance from which the sample was taken may claim from theDirector-General an amount equal to the market value thereof.(5) Where on application to a magistrate it appears to such magistrate from information on oath that there arereasonable grounds to believe that-(a) the conditions for entry described in subsection (1)(a) exist in relation to a private dwelling;