The Single Common Market Organisation (Exceptional Adjustment Aid) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Powers of an authorised person

13.—(1) An authorised person who has entered any land or premises under regulation 12 may–

(a) inspect the land, premises, buildings and any document, record or equipment thereon which he reasonably believes relates to an application;

(b) require the applicant or beneficiary, or any employee or agent of such applicant or beneficiary, to produce, or secure the production of, any document or record or supply any additional information in his possession or under his control relating to the application;

(c) where any document, record or information referred to in sub-paragraph (b) is kept by means of a computer, have access to and inspect any computer and associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with that document, record or information;

(d) require copies of, or extracts from, any document, record or information relating to the application to be produced;

(e) remove and retain for a reasonable period any document, record or information relating to the application which he has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings under these Regulations and, where any such document, record or information is kept by means of a computer, require it to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away and in which it is visible and legible;

(f) if necessary for the purposes of enforcing these Regulations or the European Regulations–

(i) inspect and count livestock on the land and premises, and

(ii) require the applicant or beneficiary, or any employee, servant or agent of such applicant or beneficiary, to arrange for the collection, penning and securing of such livestock;

(g) require an applicant or beneficiary, or any employee, servant or agent of such applicant or beneficiary, to give an authorised person all reasonable assistance in relation to the matters mentioned in this regulation;

(h) take samples (and send them for laboratory testing) from any animal;

(i) seize and detain any animal for further examination, investigation or testing;

(j) mark any animal found on the premises for identification purposes;

(k) require that samples previously collected and dispatched to an approved laboratory for testing for the presence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus in accordance with the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Eradication Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 are further tested for DNA.

(2) Paragraph (1) applies in relation to a person referred to in regulation 12(3)(b) when such a person is acting under the instructions of an authorised person, as if such person were an authorised person.