# The Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014, Paragraph 2: Power to inspect, seize and detain products etc.


(1) An authorised person may—
(a) in order to ascertain if there has been a breach of these Regulations, inspect any meter, heat cost allocator, record, document or information;
(b) in order to ascertain if there has been a breach of these Regulations require any person carrying on as or employed by a heat supplier to produce any meter, heat cost allocator, record, document or information and take copies of—
(i) any document or record; or
(ii) any entry in any document or record;
(c) in order to ascertain by testing or otherwise if there has been a breach of these Regulations and reasonably suspecting such breach, seize and detain any meter, heat cost allocator, record, document or information;
(d) seize and detain any meter, heat cost allocator, record, document or information which may be required as evidence in any proceedings under these Regulations.
(2) An authorised person may require information stored electronically to be made available in printed form.
(3) An authorised person entering any premises whether under a power of entry under paragraph 1 or under a warrant under paragraph 3 must, if the occupier is present, give to the occupier or, if the occupier is absent, leave in a prominent place a notice—
(a) summarising the authorised person's powers of seizure and detention of meters, heat cost allocators, records, documents and information;
(b) disclosing at which office of the authorised person and within which hours a copy of these Regulations is available to be consulted.
(4) An authorised person entering any premises which are unoccupied or from which the occupier is temporarily absent must leave them as effectively secured against unauthorised entry as they were before entry.
(5) An authorised person exercising any power of seizure and detention must—
(a) give to the person against whom the power has been exercised a written notice stating what has been seized and detained;
(b) detain those things only for as long as is necessary for the authorised person to ascertain whether a breach of these Regulations has occurred and if required present the evidence at court.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3120/schedule/3/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/heat-network-metering-and-billing-regulations-2014/schedule-3/paragraph-2
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