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Article 5 Powers of inspectorsI1

Scotland

(1)

An inspector may, for any purpose relating to this Order or to the Commission Regulation—

(a)

enter any administrative site, production site or compartment;

(b)

have access to, and inspect, 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 a document or record;

(e)

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

(f)

be accompanied by F1... any person the inspector considers necessary.

(2)

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

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in art. 5(1)(f) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/71), regs. 1(1)(b), 26; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement

I1

Art. 5 in force at 10.5.2010, see art. 1(b)