The Slaughter Premium (Wales) Regulations 2001

Powers in relation to documents

25.  An authorised person may—

(a) require a claimant or any officer, employee, servant or agent of a claimant to produce any claimant’s document in his or her possession or under his or her control and to supply such additional information in that person’s possession or under his or her control relating to a claim as the authorised person may reasonably request;

(b) require a slaughterhouse operator or any officer, employee, servant or agent of a slaughterhouse operator to produce any slaughterhouse document in his or her possession or under his or her control and to supply such additional information in that person’s possession or under his or her control relating to the business or operation of a slaughterhouse or to any bovine animal slaughtered or delivered for slaughter there as the authorised person may reasonably request;

(c) examine any claimant’s document referred to in sub-paragraph (a), or any slaughterhouse document referred to in sub-paragraph (b), and, where it is kept by means of a computer, have access to, and inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with that claimant’s document, or slaughterhouse document, as the case may be;

(d) make such copies of any claimant’s document referred to in sub-paragraph (a), or any slaughterhouse document referred to in sub-paragraph (b), as he or she may think fit; and

(e) seize and retain any claimant’s document referred to in sub-paragraph (a), or any slaughterhouse document referred to in sub-paragraph (b), which he or she has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings in relation to a claim and, where any such claimant’s document or slaughterhouse document is kept by means of a computer, require it to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away.