The Extensification Payment (Scotland) Regulations 2002

Powers in relation to documents

12.  An authorised person may–

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

(b) examine any claimant’s document referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above 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 sub-paragraph (a) above as the authorised person may think fit; and

(d) seize and retain any claimant’s document referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above which the authorised person 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.