Extensification Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Powers in relation to documents

11.  An authorised person may—

(a) require a claimant or any officer, employee, servant or agent of a claimant to produce any claimant’s document in his possession or under his control and to supply such additional information in that person’s possession or under his control relating to a claim as the authorised person may reasonably request;

(b) examine any claimant’s document referred to in paragraph (a) and, where it 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 used in connection with that claimant’s document;

(c) make such copies of any claimant’s document referred to in paragraph (a) as he may think fit; and

(d) seize and retain any claimant’s document referred to in paragraph (a) which he has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings under these Regulations and, where any such claimant’s document is kept by means of a computer, require it to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away.