{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfrontier-shipment-of-waste-regulations-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-8A",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1711",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfrontier-shipment-of-waste-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/8A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Powers of entry etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person authorised by the Secretary of State under regulation 50B(2) (“P”) may, for the purposes of assisting a competent authority in its enforcement of the Community Regulation and these Regulations—\n(a) at any reasonable time board an offshore installation;\n(b) be accompanied by an authorised person and take any equipment or materials that P thinks may be required;\n(c) make such examination or investigation as P considers necessary (“a necessary examination or investigation”);\n(d) give a direction requiring that any part of the offshore installation be left undisturbed (whether generally or in particular respects) for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes of a necessary examination or investigation;\n(e) take such measurements and photographs and make such recordings as P considers necessary for the purpose of a necessary examination or investigation;\n(f) take samples of any thing found on the offshore installation or in the atmosphere or any land, seabed (including its subsoil) or water in the vicinity of the offshore installation;\n(g) require any person who P has reasonable cause to believe is able to give any information relevant to a necessary examination or investigation—\n(i) to attend at a place and time specified by P,\n(ii) to answer (in the absence of any person other than persons whom P may allow to be present and a person nominated to be present by the person on whom the requirement is imposed) such questions as P thinks fit to ask, and\n(iii) to sign a declaration of truth of that person’s answers;\n(h) require the production of, and inspect and take copies of or of any entry in, any records which P considers it necessary to see for the purposes of a necessary examination or investigation;\n(i) require any person to afford P such facilities and assistance with respect to any matters or things within that person’s control or in relation to which that person has responsibilities as P considers are necessary to enable P to exercise any of the powers conferred on P by this Part.\n(2) P must, if requested to do so, produce a duly authenticated authorisation document.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. 2A inserted (1.5.2014) by The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/861), regs. 1, 21(4) (with reg. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1711/schedule/5/paragraph/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:51:07.012291+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}