PART 7Information and records
General trade licences: inspection of records57
1
A person authorised by the Secretary of State or the Commissioners (an “official”) may at any reasonable hour enter premises notified under regulation 56(4) (general trade licences: records) for the purposes of monitoring compliance with or detecting evasion of regulation 56(2) or (3).
2
An official may require any person on the premises to produce any register or record required to be kept under regulation 56, or any document included in such a register or record, that is in the person’s possession or control.
3
An official may inspect and copy any such register, record or document.
4
An official must, if requested to do so, produce documentary evidence that he or she is authorised to exercise a power conferred by this regulation.
5
A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person—
a
intentionally obstructs an official in the performance of any of the official’s functions under this regulation, or
b
fails to produce a register, record or document when reasonably required to do so by an official under this regulation.