Powers of authorised persons
9. (1) An authorised person may exercise any of the powers specified paragraphs (2) to (4) for the purposes of these Regulations.
(2) An authorised person on producing, if so required, a duly authenticated document showing the person’s authority to do so, may at all reasonable hours enter any land other than a building used only as a dwelling house.
(3) An authorised person may—
(a) carry out any inquiries, checks, examinations, measurements and tests;
(b) take samples;
(c) inspect any part of the land (whether it is farmed or is withdrawn from agricultural production) and any livestock, crops, machinery or equipment;
(d) mark any animal or other thing for identification purposes;
(e) have access to, inspect and copy any documents or records (in whatever form they are held) or remove such records to enable them to be copied;
(f) have access to, inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with the documents or records; and for this purpose require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer, apparatus or material to afford such assistance as is reasonably required and, where a document or record is kept by means of a computer, reasonably require the document to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away;
(g) remove a carcase found on the land for the purpose of carrying out a post-mortem examination on it;
(h) take a photograph of anything on the land; and
(i) remove anything reasonably believed to be evidence of any failure to meet the eligibility conditions.
(4) An authorised person entering any premises or land by virtue of this regulation may take with them such other persons as they consider necessary.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation a computer includes any electronic device.

Reg. 9 in operation at 1.1.2024, see reg. 1