SCHEDULE 1Memorandum of Arrangements relating to the creation of a single system of social security investigation powers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Powers of authorised officers8

Where an authorised officer has authorisation to exercise any one or more of the social security investigation powers for any one or more of the stipulated purposes of the legislation in one territory, he shall be treated as having authorisation to exercise for the same purposes the equivalent social security investigation powers in the other territory.