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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2010/9780111010228",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Powers of an inspector",
  "text": "(1) Where an inspector considers that a farmed animal is being kept in contravention of any provision of these Regulations, the inspector may serve a notice on the person who in the opinion of the inspector is responsible for that animal requiring that person within the period stated in the notice to take any action that the inspector considers to be reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with these Regulations and the inspector shall give reasons for requiring that action to be taken.\n(2) An inspector may enter any premises except domestic premises at all reasonable times, on producing, if so required, evidence of that inspector’s authority, for the purpose of ascertaining whether these Regulations are being, or have been, complied with and, in particular, may—\n(a) inspect and copy any records (in whatever form they are held) kept under these Regulations or remove such records to enable them to be copied;\n(b) inspect and check the operation of any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is, or has been, in use in connection with the records;\n(c) for that purpose, require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with, the operation of the computer, apparatus or material to afford the inspector such assistance as the inspector may reasonably require (including providing the inspector with any necessary passwords);\n(d) where a record is kept by means of a computer, require the record to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away;\n(e) examine, or require the examination of, any farmed animal kept on the premises; and\n(f) take on to the premises such persons to give the inspector such assistance and such equipment as the inspector considers necessary.\n(3) If a Sheriff or Justice of the Peace is satisfied by evidence on oath laid by any inspector that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence under these Regulations has been or is being committed at any domestic premises, the Sheriff or Justice may issue a warrant authorising any inspector to enter those premises, by reasonable force if need be, and inspect them and any animals or any thing found there.\n(4) A warrant issued under paragraph (3) above—\n(a) may authorise persons to accompany the person who is executing the warrant; and\n(b) shall continue in force for the period of one month commencing with the date of issue.\n(5) The power of entry conferred by the warrant may be exercised at all reasonable times and any person entering the premises in exercise of that power shall—\n(a) produce the warrant if so required; and\n(b) comply with such precautions (if any) as the Sheriff or Justice of the Peace may specify to prevent the spread among animals of infectious or contagious diseases.\n(6) If an inspector enters any unoccupied premises, the inspector must leave them as effectively secured against entry as the inspector found them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2010/9780111010228/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:37:40.372700+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}