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to enter during the day any step-down care institution under the control and management of an approved provider with the consent of the approved provider; (b)to take photographs of the premises of the step-down care institution; (c)to request the approved provider or any other person on the premises to answer any question, or to produce any document or record so requested by the authorised officer;

to inspect any document or record kept by the approved provider connected with the provision of step-down care, whether or not kept or maintained at those premises;

to take extracts from, or make copies of, any such document or record;

in relation to any such document or record —

to operate equipment at the premises where such document or record are kept or maintained to see whether the equipment, or a disk, tape or other storage device that is at those premises and can be used or associated with the equipment, contains information that is relevant, in respect of the approved provider, to making the assessments referred to in subsection (2); and

if the authorised officer, after operating equipment at those premises finds that the equipment, or disk, tape or other storage device at the premises, contains information of that kind, to operate facilities at the premises to put the information in documentary form and copying the document or record so produced, or if the information can be transferred to a disk, tape or other storage device that is brought to the premises by the authorised officer, operating the equipment or other facilities to copy the information to the storage device and removing the storage device from the premises.

to assess whether records have been kept as required by this Part;

to assess whether the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder relating to, or the conditions of the subvention in respect of, the approved provider concerned have been complied with.