Powers of inspection etcU.K.
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22.—(1) An authorised person who has entered any land or premises in exercise of a power conferred by regulation 21 may—
(a)inspect the land or premises;
(b)inspect any animal or equipment found on the land or premises which is, or which the authorised person reasonably suspects to be, an animal or equipment to which a regulated transaction relates;
(c)inspect and take samples of any specified commodity or other substance found on the land or premises which the authorised person reasonably suspects to be a specified commodity or any substance which, in accordance with any EU requirement, may be used with a specified commodity.
(2) An authorised person may—
(a)require any specified person or employee or agent of the specified person to produce any commercial document and to supply such additional information in that person's possession or under that person's control relating to a ... debt or to a trade or business in a specified commodity as the authorised person may reasonably request;
(b)inspect any such commercial document and, where any such document is kept by means of a computer, have access to, and inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with that document;
(c)require that copies of, or extracts from, any commercial document be produced;
(d)seize and retain any commercial document which the authorised person has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings under this Part of these Regulations and, where any such document is kept by means of a computer, require it to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away.
(3) In paragraph (2), “commercial document” has the meaning given by Article 79(3)(a) of the Horizontal Regulation.