Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Inspection of Clinical Establishment :— (1) the supervising authority or any officer empowered by it in that behalf may, subject to such general or special order as may be made by the State Government, at any time, enter and inspect any premises which are used or which the supervising authority or, as the case may be, 1["the officer empowered by", the words "the Inspecting Authority"] it has reason to believe to be used for the purpose of a clinical estblishment and require the production of any records, which are required to be kept in accordance with the provisions of this Act or the rules, for inspection : Provided that any personal records of a patient if inspected during the course of inspection shall be kept confidential except for the purpose of sub-section (4). (2) 2[Ommited] (3) 3["The supervising authority or the inspecting Authority,] may interview any private inpatient receiving treatment and care in the clinical establishment— (a) for the purpose of inquiry into any complaint made by or on behalf of such patient as to the treatment and care; or (b) in any case, where the supervising authority has reason to believe