Did you know we have a dedicated powers and duties tool?
Available to LG Inform Plus subscribers, it provides information on what current legislation gives English and Welsh councils the power to do and what it requires them to do in law. Advanced searching and filtering options make it easy to find specific powers and duties based on legislation, business function and keyword, and results are easily exported in commonly used formats.
|
Consumer protection - search, seizure and detention Power
- Description
- A duly authorised officer of an enforcement authority may at any reasonable hour and on production, if required, of his credentials -
If the officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any goods are manufactured or imported goods which have not been supplied in the United Kingdom since they were manufactured or imported he may—
(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been any contravention of any safety provision in relation to the goods, require any person carrying on a business, or employed in connection with a business, to produce any records relating to the business;
(b) for the purpose of ascertaining (by testing or otherwise) whether there has been any such contravention, seize and detain the goods;
(c) take copies of, or of any entry in, any records produced by virtue of paragraph (a) above.
- Modified
- 14 Jun 2016
- Status
- Live
- is found in the following lists
-
- allows
-
