Finance Act 1948

4 (1) The licensed occupier of a course shall admit an officer in the course of his duty to any part of the course without any payment for admission and shall, if an officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the duty for which the licensed occupier is accountable, so requires, produce to the officer any books, accounts or other documents.

(2) An officer may require from any person at a meeting at which a totalisator is operated who appears to the officer to be carrying on bookmaking such information as the officer may require, or the production to the officer of any books, accounts or other documents which appear to the officer to be connected with the business of bookmaking or to establish the identity of that person, and that person shall comply with the requirement.

(3) An officer may take copies of or extracts from any books, accounts or other documents produced to him in pursuance of this paragraph.

(4) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with the preceding provisions of this paragraph or obstructs an officer in the exercise of any of his functions in connection with the bookmakers' licence duty, he shall be liable to an excise penalty of two hundred pounds.

(5) In this paragraph the expression " officer " means an officer of Customs and Excise, and includes any person who is expressly authorised by the Commissioners to perform the duties of an officer of Customs and Excise for the purposes of the bookmakers' licence duty.