(1) A person (the
assistant ) may accompany an inspector entering a place under
section 511(1) to assist the inspector if the inspector considers the
assistance is necessary.
(2) The reference to a
person in subsection (1) includes an interpreter.
(3) The
assistant —
(a) may
do the things at the place and in the manner that the inspector reasonably
requires to assist the inspector to exercise the inspector’s powers; but
(b) must
not do anything that the inspector does not have power to do.
(4) Anything done
lawfully by the assistant is taken to have been done by the inspector.