S.L. 452.134 Art. 17Designated officers.

(1) Without prejudice to the powers of the Director under the Act, for the purposes of ensuring compliance with these regulations, the Director may request the assistance of a designated officer who, when so requested by the Director, may do any of the following:

(a) board any craft at all reasonable times;

(b) search and inspect the craft and any documents or records found on board;

(c) require any person on board the craft to produce to the designated officer any report, document or record, including in the case of information in non-legible form, a copy of the information, or of extracts from it, in permanent legible form, as the designated officer may reasonably require;

(d) inspect, examine and take copies or extracts from, or collect, if necessary, for the purposes of inspection or examination, any report, document or record, including in the case of information in non-legible form, a copy of the information, or of extracts from it, in permanent legible form, that the designated officer finds in the course of his inspection and require the person by whom such document or record is WATERWAY TRANSPORT

kept, or who produced the document or record, to certify the copy as a true copy.

(2) A person to whom an order by a designated officer is given in accordance with sub-regulation (1) shall immediately comply with such order.