M-25 - Act respecting the Ministère des Institutions financières et Coopératives

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5. If, in the course of an inquiry, it appears to the Minister that an offence has been committed against this or another act that he is required to carry out, he may seize and remove any record, book, account, voucher, letter, telegram or other document and keep them until they are produced in any judicial proceedings.
Any book, record or other document which has been the object of an examination by the Minister or taken into possession by or produced to him may be copied or photographed and any copy or photograph of such book, record or document, certified by the Minister as being a copy or photograph of the original, is admissible in evidence and has the same probative force as the original.
The Minister may authorize in writing any person to exercise the powers conferred upon him by this section.
1966-67, c. 72, s. 5.