The Beef Carcase (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Powers of authorised officers

10.—(1) An authorised officer may at all reasonable hours and on producing, if so required, a duly authenticated document showing his authority, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Community provisions or these Regulations have been or are being complied with –

(a) enter any regulated slaughterhouse or any slaughterhouse which he reasonably suspects to be such a slaughterhouse;

(b) inspect any regulated carcase or part of such a carcase, or any carcase or part of a carcase which he reasonably suspects to be such a carcase or part of such a carcase, in that slaughterhouse;

(c) examine any records which an occupier is required to keep, under regulation 8 and where any such record is kept by means of a computer, have access to and inspect and check the operation of any computer and associated apparatus or material which is, or has been, in use in connection with that record;

(d) require that copies of or extracts from any such record be produced and, where such record is kept by means of a computer, require it to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away; and

(e) retain any such record which he has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings under these Regulations.

(2) An authorised officer entering a regulated slaughterhouse or other slaughterhouse by virtue of this regulation may take with him such other persons and such equipment as he considers necessary.