Article 4 Power of inspectors

United Kingdom

(1)

An inspector may, for any purpose relating to this Order—

(a)

enter any premises F1approved as a compartment under this Order and any administrative site which contains records relevant to the F2approval of a site as a compartment;

(b)

require the keeper to produce or copy any document or record;

(c)

remove and retain a copy of any document or record;

(d)

have access to, and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with records;

(e)

where a record is kept by means of a computer, require the record to be produced in a form which may be taken away;

(f)

be accompanied by F3... any people or things the inspector considers necessary.

(2)

A person required to do anything by an inspector acting under paragraph (1) must, unless they have reasonable cause, do so without delay.

(3)

For the purposes of this article an inspector means any person approved as an inspector under the Animal Health Act 1981.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in art. 4(1)(a) substituted (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 35(a)
F2: Word in art. 4(1)(a) substituted (24.12.2012) by The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2897), arts. 1(1), 35(b)
F3: Words in art. 4(1)(f) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1406), regs. 1, 10; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)