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NURSES AND MIDWIVES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 39

Powers of entry.

39.(1) An authorised officer may at all reasonable times enter any premises
which he has reason to believe to be a lying-in home conducted for profit
within the area of the [Health and Social Services Board] by whom he is
authorised to act, and in which he has reason to believe that a midwife is
employed or practises or that a woman who is not a midwife practises in
contravention of this Part.

(2) An authorised officer acting in pursuance of this section shall, if asked
to do so, produce his credentials.

(3) Any person who wilfully obstructs or impedes an authorised officer acting
in pursuance of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #5.

(4) In this section "authorised officer" means an officer of a [Health and
Social Services Board] authorised in writing by the [Board] to act for the
purposes of this section.[


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