Regulation 15 Amendment of Regulation 32 in Schedule 1

Regulation 32 in Schedule 1 (inspection of employer’s records)^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

In paragraph (1) for the words “at the employer’s premises” there shall be substituted the words “at such time as that officer may reasonably require, at the prescribed place”.

After paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs–

“(1A)

In paragraph (1) of this Regulation “the prescribed place” means–

(a)

such place in Great Britain as the employer and the authorised officer may agree upon; or

(b)

in default of such agreement, the place in Great Britain at which the documents and records referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (aa) of this Regulation arenormally kept; or

(c)

in default of such agreement and if there is no such place as is referred to in sub-paragraph (b) above, the employer’s principal place of business in Great Britain.

(1B)

The authorised officer may–

(a)

take copies of, or make extracts from, any documents produced to him for inspection in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Regulation;

(b)

if it appears to him to be necessary to do so, at a reasonable time and for a reasonable period, remove any document so produced, and, if he does so, shall provide a receipt for any documents so removed; and where a lien is claimed on a document produced in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Regulation, the removal of the document under this sub-paragraph shall not be regarded as breaking the lien;

and where a document removed in accordance with sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph is reasonably required for the proper conduct of a business the authorised officer shall within 7 days provide a copy of the document, free of charge, to the person by whom it was produced or caused to be produced.”.