# The Beef Special Premium (Protection of Payments) Order 1989, Article 9: Powers of entry


(1) For the purposes mentioned in Article 8(1) and (3) of the Commission Regulation an officer of the Board or of one of the Ministers authorised for the purposes of this paragraph may, during a period of three years from the end of the calendar year in which an application for a premium payment was made,–
(a) enter at any reasonable time upon any agricultural land which was, or is alleged by a producer to have been, used for the production of an animal to which that application related;
(b) enter at any reasonable time upon any land which was used for the sale or slaughter of an animal to which that application related;
(c) examine that land and any buildings erected upon it; and
(d) search for, examine, take possession of or copy any account, record, voucher or other document relating to that application.
(2) An officer acting in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) above shall carry a warrant of his authority so to act, and shall produce it on demand.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/574/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/beef-special-premium-protection-of-payments-order-1989/article-9
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