The Restriction on Pithing (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Powers of inspectors

5.—(1) An inspector shall, on producing if so required, some duly authenticated document showing that inspector’s authority have the right at all reasonable hours to enter any land or premises (other than domestic premises not being used in connection with these Regulations) for the purposes of ascertaining if there is or has been a contravention of regulation 2(1).

(2) In paragraph (1), “inspector” means a person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations by the Food Standards Agency or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers or a local authority.

(3) In paragraph (2), paragraph (4) and in regulation 8, “local authority” means a Council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994(1).

(4) Any person appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of the Animal Health Act 1981(2) by–

(a) a local authority; or

(b) the Scottish Ministers,

shall be deemed to have been appointed to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations by that authority or, as the case may be, the Scottish Ministers.

(1)

1994 c. 39.

(2)

1981 c. 22.