The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2008

Time costs

10.  In determining the total time spent in exercising official controls, any time spent by an inspector–

(a) in travelling to or from premises at which that inspector exercises official controls and for which that inspector is paid under a contract of employment or contract for services;

(b) at any premises to which that inspector has gone for the purpose of exercising official controls and for which that inspector is paid under a contract of employment or contract for services (regardless of whether or not that inspector is able to exercise official controls there); and

(c) at any other place–

(i) when that inspector is available for exercising official controls but is not in fact exercising any such controls; and

(ii) for which that inspector is paid under that inspector’s contract of employment or contract for services,

shall be counted as if it were time when the inspector was exercising official controls.