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Food Act 2014

Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement - Territorial authorities - Review of territorial authorities

189: Powers of reviewer

You could also call this:

"What a reviewer can do to check a territorial authority is doing its job correctly"

When a reviewer checks a territorial authority, you can think of the reviewer as someone who makes sure the authority is doing its job correctly. The reviewer can look at the authority's plans, rules, systems, and records. The reviewer can also go to any place the authority uses for work, or where the authority's documents are kept, during business hours.

The reviewer can examine and copy documents and records that are about the authority's work under the Food Act 2014. This includes electronic records. The reviewer can remove documents to copy them, but only for a reasonable time.

The reviewer can ask someone who knows about the documents to help get the information from a computer or other device, so it can be used.

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Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Territorial authorities: Review of territorial authorities

189Powers of reviewer

  1. The reviewer may examine a territorial authority’s strategies, policies, systems, processes, and records.

  2. The reviewer may, during business hours,—

  3. enter any place—
    1. the territorial authority occupies for the purpose of its business; or
      1. where documents relating to the territorial authority are held or are likely to be held:
      2. examine, inquire about, and copy any documents or other records (including records in electronic or other form) held by the territorial authority, or by or on behalf of the territorial authority, that relate to the territorial authority’s performance of its functions and duties, or the exercise of its powers, under this Act.

        1. For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), the reviewer may—

        2. remove documents or records to another place for a reasonable time for the purpose of copying them; and
          1. require a person who has control or knowledge of the documents or records to reproduce or to assist in reproducing in usable form information recorded or stored in a computer or any other device or system.