Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) "his warrant of authorization as such, may at any reasonable time and with such assistants as he" and substituting "his or her warrant of authorization, may at any reasonable time and with such assistants as he or she" ;

(b) by omitting paragraph (b) from subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

(b) on any land that is a private timber reserve to ensure that the land is being used for establishing forests, growing or harvesting timber or other forest practices.

(c) by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:

(2)  A forest practices officer, on production of his or her warrant of authorization, may at any reasonable time request any person associated with forest practices that are being (or in the officer's opinion appear to have been) carried out on any land referred to in subsection (1) to do one or more of the following:

(a) answer any question relating to those forest practices;

(b) produce any record or document relating to those forest practices;

(c) answer any question relating to any such record or document.

(d) by omitting from subsection (3)(a) "him" and substituting "the forest practices officer" ;

(e) by omitting from subsection (4) "his" and substituting "his or her" ;

(f) by omitting from subsection (4) "he" three times occurring and substituting "he or she" ;

(g) by omitting from subsection (5) "him or make him" and substituting "the person or make him or her" ;

(h) by omitting from subsection (5) "him shall not be admissible against him" and substituting "the person is not admissible against him or her" .