Regulation 7 Applications for compensatory allowances
The appropriate Minister shall not pay a compensatory allowance unless an application for that payment has been submitted to the appropriate Minister in such form and at such time as he may require.
A person authorised by the appropriate Minister may, on production of his authority on demand and at any reasonable time, enter on any land occupied by a person claiming a compensatory allowance or used by him for grazing a herd or flock to which an application for a compensatory allowance relates and may—
inspect that land for the purposes of determining the forage area;
inspect that land for the purposes of determining whether it has been overgrazed;
require that the person claiming a compensatory allowance or any person in charge of animals on the land gather together at a reasonable time and in a convenient place on that land the herd or flock to which his application relates for the purpose of counting and inspection;
count and inspect any animals on that land;
require that the person claiming a compensatory allowance furnish for inspection any document or other record in his possession or under his control relating to any animals kept or formerly kept by him; and
require the person claiming a compensatory allowance and any person in charge of animals on the land to render all reasonable assistance to him in his exercise of the powers conferred by this paragraph.
In any counting of sheep, a reasonable allowance may be made for dead or ungathered animals.
In exercising the power conferred on him by paragraph (2), an authorised person may be accompanied by such other persons as appear to him to be necessary and, in relation to the inspection of documents or records any of them shall be entitled to make such copies as he may think fit.