The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995

Inspector’s power to enter premises and inspect records

22.—(1) This regulation shall apply for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the following provisions insofar as they relate to compound feedingstuffs:

(a) sections 68, 69, 70, 73A and 74;

(b) regulations 5, 15(11), 17, 18 and 19, and Schedules 1, 6, 9 and 10.

(2) An inspector appointed under section 67 may at all reasonable times enter any premises (not being premises used only as a dwelling)—

(a) on which he has reasonable cause to believe any compound feeding stuff is manufactured; or

(b) which he has reasonable cause to believe are occupied by a person engaged in the manufacture of any compound feeding stuff, for purposes related to such manufacture by him, and may on those premises—

(i) require any person engaged in the manufacture of any compound feeding stuff to produce any record, in written or any other form, relating to the manufacture by that person of any compound feeding stuff;

(ii) inspect and take copies of any such record;

(iii) where any such record is kept by means of a computer, have access to any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with the record; and

(iv) where any such record is kept as aforesaid, require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer, apparatus or material to afford him such assistance as he may reasonably require.

(3) Where—

(a) a requirement is made under paragraph 2(b)(i) above in relation to any feeding stuff intended for a particular nutritional purpose; and

(b) at the time the requirement is made, the record in respect of which it is made has been published and is available in accessible form for public use,

the person of whom the requirement is made shall be deemed to comply with it if, at the time it is made, he supplies the inspector making it with correct and adequate details of the publication concerned and of where a copy of it may be obtained.

(4) An inspector entering any premises by virtue of this regulation may take with him such other persons and such equipment as may appear to him to be necessary.

(5) Section 83 shall apply in relation to the exercise or, as the case may be, the purported exercise, of any powers under this regulation, as it applies in relation to the exercise or purported exercise of any power under Part IV of the Act.