# The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007, Paragraph 8A: Powers of entry etc.


(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—
(a) at any reasonable time board an offshore installation;
(b) be accompanied by an authorised person and take any equipment or materials that P thinks may be required;
(c) make such examination or investigation as P considers necessary (“a necessary examination or investigation”);
(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;
(e) take such measurements and photographs and make such recordings as P considers necessary for the purpose of a necessary examination or investigation;
(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;
(g) require any person who P has reasonable cause to believe is able to give any information relevant to a necessary examination or investigation—
(i) to attend at a place and time specified by P,
(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
(iii) to sign a declaration of truth of that person’s answers;
(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;
(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.
(2) P must, if requested to do so, produce a duly authenticated authorisation document.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1711/schedule/5/paragraph/8A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transfrontier-shipment-of-waste-regulations-2007/schedule-5/paragraph-8A
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